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Re: Bug or Limitation: Combo Box References: Limited Capacity Dan, permissions like "can create" are not available in the stand-alone version. Don't forget about us!
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Re: How to import local database from external HDD? So, I had access to an Intel-based MacBook and was able to boot that from my old iMac drive in a USB dock. Ran Ninox there to create the archives, then plugged it back into the new MacBook to import…
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Re: How to import local database from external HDD? After contacting Ninox support, it does look like the only approach is to boot from the external drive and create archives which can then be imported after re-booting from the internal drive.…
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Re: How to import local database from external HDD? Sean, do you mean that this procedure will work with local databases? I hadn't saved the local databases as archives before the Mac died, so I don't see any *.…
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How to import local database from external HDD?
My Mac failed, but the hard drive is OK, so I've got it in a USB HDD dock. How can I best import my local databases from that drive into my new Mac? I am using Mac Desktop Ninox, not Ninox Cloud.…
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Use "select ... where ..." or "select ... [...]"?
Proposition: It is preferred to use "select mytable where criteria" over "select mytable[criteria]". I only recently saw in the forum the use of a square bracket criteria expression on a select…
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Re: Formula help please. This should work: if Rarity then text(Rarity) else "Not Rated" end
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Re: "comments" in the code Just be aware that with a quoted string not assigned to anything, you are not really creating a comment, you are specifiying a result value that may or not be used somewhere.…
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Re: I can pass a record as a function argument! OK, I've done some more testing, with mixed results. Here's what works and what doesn't, so far. This seems to be a capability that you can use very carefully,…
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I can pass a record as a function argument!
OMG, I just tried this and it worked! Did anybody else already know about this? I can't find any reference to this capability to pass a record into a function. function test(node : Entries) do node.…
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Re: Universal array handling when array items are not text strings Oh, yes, baby! That's it! I knew there was something in there somewhere that would do it. Thank you, Günther! This will work great. I may have a lot of records,…
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Re: Universal array handling when array items are not text strings Since I'm looking for how to manipulate arrays that don't contain text values, I keep looking at the slice function, because it does return a new array, regardless of array element type,…
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Universal array handling when array items are not text strings
There are at least a couple of threads proposing user-defined functions to make array handling more convenient - but they all work only for arrays of text strings,…
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Re: Sorting within a constraint You should click the tool icon (upper right on Mac desktop version) BEFORE you open the constrained view. It will then be displayed in red. Open the constrained view and make it look however you want:…
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Re: Set Date Field with a choice Field is Made BTW, if you want to make your code a bit more readable, you can compare choice field values with text using 'like', as in: ------------------------------------ if 'Date Closed' = null and 'Project…
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Re: Types of parameters for a private function A delimiter argument for the concat function would make a lot of sense. In the meantime, I've used the replace() function to replace the default ", " delimiter in the concatenated string with the…
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Re: Types of parameters for a private function If you really need to pass an array into a function (e.g. into one of the new user-defined global functions), one approach I've used is to pass a string argument with a known convention for…
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Re: Types of parameters for a private function I can't remember where I first saw this, but functions can also accept and return 'boolean' as an argument type, as in: function myfunc(arg: boolean) do if arg then bla bla bla endend Also,…
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Re: Reference of Functions and Language Ah. So I can't pass a record as an argument to a function. I hope that is on a list of future enhancements. Thank you for the information. (Tim)
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- 5 yrs ago
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Re: Reference of Functions and Language Sorry, I messed up my example a little. The question is how do I specify the argument type when I want to pass a record to the function?
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Re: Reference of Functions and Language A question about user-defined functions: How can I pass a record as an argument? -- Start example function myfunc(somerecord: ) do somerecord.somefield :…
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Re: Reference of Functions and Language Hi, again. I'm really having fun with the scripting features of Ninox! I found the list of new features in Ninox 2.2.0 and would like to know more about the new loop features,…
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Re: Reference of Functions and Language Ah, yes. For declarations, like in Swift. So it wasn't a scoping problem, it was that I was getting a new variable declaration (of the same name) every time. Thanks!
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Re: Reference of Functions and Language That works! Thank you! Can you explain the difference between "var" and "let"? Also, can you explain when and why to leave out "var" or "let", as in line 5 and 8 in your example? Thanks again! (Tim)
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Re: Reference of Functions and Language Hi. I want to loop through some records, and detect when some value is different from the previous record. In this example, I just loop through an array of numbers,…
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