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Mel Charles

Mel_Charles

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Joined: Sat Dec 14 17:00:37 UTC 2019

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Re: Interrogating the History information
Hi Inspector 99 I don't rely on this history file at all as it store too much info that I don't want and i have no contrrol over how long it stores etc.…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Free text
Now that is interesting - Will give this a try. Entering it from the keyboard probably involves using a combination of all 10 fingers !!! Thank you for the update :-)
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Change colour of a formula box if it’s a year later
John/Nick Both methods work and that is good what you have shown yewani is that there are several ways to achieve the required result - even better !!In fact,…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Having a problem with dates
Has the co worker got his/her language setting set up correctly on the macbook?
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Trying to e-mail with record in PDF attached
I'm using several buttons with various send email+ attachment (cloud version) which is used some 10 times day and apart from when setting up and testing (approx 9 months ago) I have never had any…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Automatic table cleaning after one year
I have this in the global scripts to delete all records in a table TempOrders after 2 years. Mine looks to test for April (the 4 in the month values - make it 1 for Jan etc) you should be able to…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: other software
Sean - That looks interesting and I see they do a community 5 uesr version for free! Might have a play with :-)
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Hosed table
Yeah - been there - Done that one alteration/mod too many and boom data/db etc screwed !!! Yes I agree Ninox does a very good job for what it is and you are quite correct the underlying structure has…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Does anyone use a cloud based RAD database other than Ninox - if so what? and how does it compare? ie like Ninox - can you have forms over the tables. Can it be multi user.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Free text
Ninox clearly have a fixed grid to drop the various controls into and have control over the size/position. This gridding, I guess is somewhat fixed for display purposes across different devices…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Hosed table
Also - I use mac I only have a multiple cloud subscription and one of the advantages of the cloud version is that you can have many copies of your database directly to hand and thus I use one for…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Hosed table
Rebellion is a wonderful thing and very liberating :-)
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Hosed table
Also perhaps one day we will get an "edit my post" feature on this forum. As it would be great to be able to correct the odd typo spelling mistake !!! Most other sites I use - have this feature !…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Hosed table
Yes I agree, What would be great is the a bility to produce a system report that lists all tables, all fields belonging to each table. All attributes assoicated with each field. all forumlas etc.…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Hosed table
I can't shed any light onto or add to the above but what I can say is - that I have learned to be very wary of Ninox's latest additions and lets face it the DC's are pretty new.…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Table context
Yeah that's the idea - I only need to see the parent info in my child table but it should do what you want. As said it may be a bit crude but it for works for me.…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Free text
I have found that by using a headline instead of the free text tool - and changing it's attribiutes font size/colour etc - is SOMETIMES more prefferable to using free text !
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Table context
This might not give you a perfect answer as I am sure those who are much cleverer than me can offer a better sulution! (Steven, John etc) but I pass the tableID from the parent down to the child…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Haywire formulas while duplicating a table
UKengGB - short answer YES (raised it) Ninox response todate is "null" "nowt" zero etc. Most time you get the standard answer of thank you for informing us - we will put it on the back burner and by…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Did anybody else experience some Ninox date-field weirdness over the last couple of days?
Hmmm yes it is frustrating. I'm still havin a few issues. I'm finding that sevral scripts (partiulary those in my globals) are simply stopping working. They work for a week or too then simply stop!…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Triggering importFile() without a button? to automate updating of a shareFile()
Haven't tried it but could it work from a global script?
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Did anybody else experience some Ninox date-field weirdness over the last couple of days?
Yep - Exactly the same issue with Global dates - testing table to remove old records to archive. (cloud version) I send sample of my code to support and they said it resovled to NULL (which it did…
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Printing Records of A Table
ah ah that should have said "you have done nothing wrong" etc. Yes - it's bonkers but Ninox limits the view to 6 lines by default! - Why - is anyones guess they do the same with table views etc.
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Printing Records of A Table
You have done nothing - Ninox show 6 by default. in edit mode on the print design just expand the records grid
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Code help please
looks like you are missing the (semi colon ;): at the end of line 8
- Mel_Charles
- 3 yrs ago
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