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The CRM Ninox Hero Webinar with Employees, Deals, and Companies

I saw the Ninox demo from 2011 which went through setting up a basic Ninox application with. In that demo, however, in the "Deals" area, only one linked employee is ever shown.

What happens if you have multiple employees working on a deal? I'm not sure how this works given this application.

Suggestions?

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    • Fred
    • 2 yrs ago
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    You can create a second reference field to Employees. The magic of Ninox is you can create multiple reference fields to the same table and Ninox will keep track of the links and not freak out. 

    It blew my mind when I first saw this done in a dashboard. You have to throw out a bit of the old way of DB thinking. 

      • ninox.1
      • 2 yrs ago
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      @Fred  Is a reference field basically the same thing as clicking the "Link" button in admin mode?

      I am starting to understand Ninox's magic! I wish there were a script debugger and other things, but for $35, it's pretty incredible.

      One thing: How do you search all your scripts? Say I have 100 scripts and I need to refactor every occurrence of some string? The lack of being able to search scripts in FileMaker was one thing that made me never take it seriously.

      Thanks in advance, Fred! :)

      • Fred
      • 2 yrs ago
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      You know what I don't use the Link to or Link from buttons in admin mode. But yes it is. My process is to Edit Fields then select the table from Create table reference.

      I don't know of a way to search all scripts. Maybe you can add that to the Christmas Wish list.

      • ninox.1
      • 2 yrs ago
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      Fred I was thinking about your reply above. If I have multiple employees for a given "deal", I'd like to be able to add one or ten. Did you mean that I'd need to keep creating links for each employee to see in the Deals form?

    • Fred
    • 2 yrs ago
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    Creating a reference field for each possible employee is one way of doing it. But not very elegant.

    In the end it sounds like you have a N:N relationship between Employees and Tasks. That will take a third table, maybe called EventPersonnel? From this new table you will create a reference field to Employee and Tasks. This table will track who works at each event. It can be one person or 1,000 people. And all the records are linked so you know which people worked an event or which events a particular person worked at.

      • ninox.1
      • 2 yrs ago
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      Fred Gotcha. Yeah, I know better. I'm just baffled by some basic Ninox stuff at the moment...  Thanks!

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