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Re: How does barcode scan function work ?
I am having issues scanning barcodes that are on a WHITE back ground... green / blue.. seem to work.. Any thoughts?
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Re: Barcode scan
@John, I do not have anything I can (easily) scan... So I cannot prove this out... You should be able to add logic into you barcode after update trigger to close the current record and create a new…
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Re: Start daily counter from dropdown choice
Assuming your invoice has a field called 'Date Sent' that holds the date that it was sent... You can create a formula field called "Invoice Age" ... something like this.
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Re: How to make a smaller save size with an archived database?
Well.. depending on your level of expertise.. Looks like you can consume a JSON feed within Excel / PowerQuery..…
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Re: Changing the way date is displayed
sorry for the type-o's... I guess I was too excited.. :)
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Re: Changing the way date is displayed
Hmm. DISCLAIMER.. I do not do much printing.. :) Do it this way.. Drop the formula idea.. not needed.. It will display on the datda entry form as a usual date type... Within you PDF designer ..…
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Re: Changing the way date is displayed
Tim, The way to go is the formula.. It does take a little bit to retrain your mind.. but once you get the hang of it.. You can crank out some amazing apps rather quickly.
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Re: Converting leads to customer
@Alfredo.. In today's Inside Ninox Webinar, Bierger reviewed how to do this.. and also addressed copying the relationships..
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Re: How to modify or totally remove the global find button?
You can control what "Global Search" looks for based on the table and the table column.
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Re: Converting leads to customer
Sure.. you "could".... you could also add a "status" field to the "lead" and then add logic to the Status field's after update trigger such that when a lead moves to "won" (or whatever you want to…
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Re: PROBLEM WITH DATA UPLOAD
@David.. LOL on the "Master" tag comment... I noticed some time ago that the forum simply counts the number of posts.. Let's just agree that you are very good at the Socratic Method of questioning..…
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Re: Date manipulation
Not addressing leap year.. let d:= today();let m := 36;let endDate := date(year(d), month(d)+m, day(d));endDate
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Re: Help with formula
What drives "the most recent value of Field B" ... Is it the last modified? Is it the last created? Or .. in Sean's example above.. is it the row that you are currently viewing?
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Re: Maintenance mode
@David.. That is a greate use case. There are a few strategies .. In the database, go into admin mode (the wrench) and navigate to Security .. and set the open database to Admin role only.…
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Re: Creating an address block from different fields
@Sarah... No worries.. that is what the forum is for. There are also several Ninox Solution Partners that offer FREE YouTube channel (Ninox Learning) as well as pay as you go one on one training.
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Re: This Forum Needs a Replacement.
+1
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Re: Using the Kanban View to show only certian parts of the workflow
The after update trigger approach above is rather clean. Yes.. You have to define a "shadow field" and table view first.. Lets assume the pipeline status has 9 potential values.…
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Re: Using the Kanban View to show only certian parts of the workflow
Monions... The concept of the "workflow" and kanban is that the field that you are declaring the kanban view over represents each step. Why have superfluous steps if you do not want to see them?
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Re: Showing all gifts for the last 12 months
Use someting like the following for the base of the view assuming you are using a year month boundary. Assume you have a table named Gifts.. and on that table you have your column 'Date Given'...…
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Re: Date Field Question.
@Mr. K... The date data type uses the system configured date format. So.. from an "input" perspective.. US dates are looking for Month Day Year. .. From an OUTPUT perspective..…
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Re: is there a way to count number of item within a selection field?
Is this what you are looking for? cnt(chosen('Multiple choice'))
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Re: Formula function displaying as a time interval in my table
@Ciaran... I am not following 100%.. The interval number of days between two dates simply tell you the number of days.. I would think you would take into account the number of effort hours.…
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Re: Data Model Question. Multiple table reference entries?
"give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach aman to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." .... Laozi
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Re: Dialog function when creating a new record
You are correct... the dialog function will NOT fire from the trigger. I recall in some other thread Ninox saying this was by design to mitigate some other issues.
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Re: send e-mail?
@Ivan.. While I have NOT tried this... Ninox uses SendGrid as their email service.. (at least I think they do) .. Looking at SendGrid site.. they offer an REST based email API https://sendgrid.…
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