
Undo function
Hello,
Is a "undo" function available for Ninox Online?
Or how can we do if we don't want to save changes?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Have a nice day,
David W.
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I started with a trial of the cloud service. Works very well bt the absence of 'undo' really freaked me out, particularly at the beginning when you don't know what you're doing... I therefore purchased the Mac version which I am now backing up to iCloud.
Meanwhile I was trying to restore the automatic backup on the Ninox cloud version to retrieve a table, but this functionality is only enabled if you have a paid-for cloud account.
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are we serious here - are we discussing the importance of an undo and trash before final delete feature?
OK AS A 30 yrs Software Developer (REAL SYSTEM CODING- NOT THE SCRIPT KID STUFF) I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS! Did nobody teach you the basics in SW-Dev?
THIS is a real bad BUG - nothing else and the fact that noone really got this fixed for years is a shame!
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I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I have wonder why such seasoned coders NEED to have this feature built into the software. Sure, it will be a nice feature to have when it is eventually implemented, in the mean time roll your own. You can hide the trash can and add your own "delete" button that would copy the information to an "undo" table. You can also design your database so it doesn't allow direct editing and again use a "save" button to copy the replaced information into an "undo" table. Just a suggestion.
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Agree with Sean.
By the way, I've started programming with programmable calculaters in the mid seventies. I've had an HP41C, and have an App of this outstanding machine on my iPhone.
In the early eighties I started working for several years on a UNIX SYSTEM V system (UNISYS 5040) with RDBMS Oracle 4, first coding, then as a system analyst, and then a bit of planning Information Systems.
I'm not a developer but a structural engineer since 1982 and that is what I do now.
Nevertheless I do understand what we are talking about.
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I am what you call no wher near a programmer/developer but have a vested interest in developing & maintaining a complete multiuser application for my business! (Cloud version)
Part of that business is to maintain and control contact of over 800,000 Uk business contacts so I definately want to esure I have a roll back!
What I have learned from using software of this nature is :-
1) Even with Ninox's built it auto bacup _ I ensure do another manual backup at least once a week at a set time and download it offline to my desktop archive folder
2) Restore a copy back from auto/archive regulary (For those that do not know when you repstore an app it appends the name "restore" to end of the database name, so it never directly overwrites your original app - Ninox leaves you to delete this and change the restore name to whatever you want. I rename my simply it PLAY COPY so I canu se it for testing
3) When testing new scripts that have big actions like deleting or copying whole tranches of data or some other important function I never ever do this in my LIVE version - I do it in the PLAY COPY first! (it's easy to copy scripts etc from play to live!)
With the above in mind I have yeat to encounter any great difficulty in rolling back - as Ninxo auto backs up regularty throughout the day
today so far I have 6 autosaved backups - thats approx 1 backup per hour !