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Re: Recently started using Ninox 4
@Rafael This is a quick mock up sample with cells held with 3 containers. Quite like the containers as you a can assign different grid settings to each container and control the visibility as a whole…
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Re: Recently started using Ninox 4
@RoSoft_Steven where is the group ?
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Re: Recently started using Ninox 4
@Fred same here Fred I now have 220k record in just one table so pricing that on N$ ids in the "ouch" category however, I have a bit of a plan! insofar as it makes some sense to move to N4 at some…
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Re: Recently started using Ninox 4
Hi Guys - Hope you are all well. Rafael - looks good Sorry for being a bit quiet! Had many a good chat to Ninox and like thas fact that they are deffo going to bolt on Api's direct for accounts etc.…
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- 2 days ago
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Re: Ninox and Stripe plugin
@RoSoft_Steven Sage cloud
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
@John Schaffer In the cold light of day - I have look at a lot of alternatives - Airtable/Sea tables. LibreOffice base etc- Rajic. but most of the products out ther are sexed up Excel display types…
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- 2 mths ago
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Ninox and Stripe plugin

Has anyone had any success with using "Stripe" eg on invoices to collect payment" if so is this complicated to get set up.? At the moment I use Ninox for quotes/jobs and all thinsg production etc but…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
@Rafael I don't need to panic on this but am starting to discover other alternative options re software out there.
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
@John Schaffer You may be right here. I have been with Ninox for since 2019 and with dataese + some filmaker before that for some 20 years so i am pretty committed.…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
@John Halls HI John - Yes have used Filemaker as used to have it. We absolutely loved Dataease by Saffire. but it started to be come out dated due to heavy reliance on procedure scripts etc and their…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
@Fred Fred I use cloud version (Pro) 🤣 Getting a bit nervous re Ninox (support) - lately becoming a lot less friendly and seems a bit more dictatorial !…
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
@Fred Fred - am I missing something? 200,000 records limit? I have 514k records just in one table in one DB alone. If they are going to limit it to max 50k records - I seriously need to think about…
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
Like it or not, Ninox intend to drop V3 by end of 2027!
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
@Fred Ah. A bit like our UK government - trying to do more but with less ! 🙂
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?
sorry to be so late to the party on this but ... where do i get my hands on a demo beta version of Ninox 4 I would like to see what is what and well before being forced to moved onto it.…
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: Importing Related Data Into Ninox - Important for Both Version 3 & Version 4 - You don’t want to miss this! Thursday, June 4th, 12:00pm EDT
@NioxusI will be on holiday then - will there be a recorded video of the meeting?
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Time discrepancies in calculations (Demo app)
For me as I only deal with UK and no appointments or time sensitive related issues. It is not a problem. However the example DB offered is well constructed and very useful to keep.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records
@Mel Charles and now sort it to stay in syc as pressing the button in first record skips that record as cound 0,1,3 punched only 1 and 2 data in the next two records so as you can see id !…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records
Actually it is doing it by table import order (ie internal Ninox creation ID) I have added a formula to point to ID and sortedon table on that and now I cvan see each record in turn updating.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records
Fred - I am stupid My script was working but just not showing the update to the first screen full of records. I was sitting on record 1 but it was updating other records (off screen so to speak).…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records
@Fred that's encouraging Fred. I can't easily upload the DB as a) it has over 900k records and obviously holds lots of client data. I will try it in my cut down testing DB and see how I get on there.…
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- 5 mths ago
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adding an auto incremental number to existing records

I am well used to adding auto numbers on the fly when creating records. However I have a batch of some updated 105,000 records that I want to add an simple incrementing number to ie 1,2,3 etc.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Dynamic Drop Down List sort order? and Pre Select?
@Fred Cheers Fred Q1 - I considered a sort order field but unless I sufficent gaps ie set it to 2 - 4 - 6 etc. Then any later additions that need to be included in an eraier sort will requote…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Issues after update
Report it to support as similar things happened a few weeks back .
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- 5 mths ago
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Dynamic Drop Down List sort order? and Pre Select?

So Guys - My question is in 2 parts Firstly my dynamic list (Pcode) is sorted in order by text (A-Z) but as you can see from the screen shot. The list is out of order for each product that has qty…
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Re: Recently started using Ninox 4

Re: Recently started using Ninox 4

Re: Recently started using Ninox 4

Re: Recently started using Ninox 4

Re: Ninox and Stripe plugin

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Ninox and Stripe plugin

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: How long will Ninox 3 remain?

Re: Importing Related Data Into Ninox - Important for Both Version 3 & Version 4 - You don’t want to miss this! Thursday, June 4th, 12:00pm EDT

Re: Time discrepancies in calculations (Demo app)

Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records

Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records

Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records

Re: adding an auto incremental number to existing records

adding an auto incremental number to existing records

Re: Dynamic Drop Down List sort order? and Pre Select?

Re: Issues after update

Dynamic Drop Down List sort order? and Pre Select?

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