So, I know nothing of Servoy, I download it and try my first form - good. Now, I need a new field that adds the values of other two.
Table: Job.Name, Job.Cost, Job.InvoiceAmount.
I need a read-only form field Job.Margin = Job.InvoiceAmount - Job.Cost. Man!
What I expected, was the ability to add an expression as the dataprovider for the field. The most intuitive concept ever. Four hours later I have no clue yet.
What did I do? I explore, I read documentation and go online to watch the viewlets. The ‘displayTags’ feature is not good for me. Way too much creating variables, etc. I go to the database and create a VIEW. Not visible in the dataproviders window. Why does it have to be so hard to do such a simple thing!?
I need something like Servoy or FileMaker or Alpha Five. I would opt for Servoy simply because of the Java platform. Guys, any advice?
Florin
florin@bytenotes.com:
So, I know nothing of Servoy, I download it and try my first form - good. Now, I need a new field that adds the values of other two.
Table: Job.Name, Job.Cost, Job.InvoiceAmount.
I need a read-only form field Job.Margin = Job.InvoiceAmount - Job.Cost. Man!
What I expected, was the ability to add an expression as the dataprovider for the field. The most intuitive concept ever. Four hours later I have no clue yet.
What did I do? I explore, I read documentation and go online to watch the viewlets. The ‘displayTags’ feature is not good for me. Way too much creating variables, etc. I go to the database and create a VIEW. Not visible in the dataproviders window. Why does it have to be so hard to do such a simple thing!?
I need something like Servoy or FileMaker or Alpha Five. I would opt for Servoy simply because of the Java platform. Guys, any advice?
Florin
Maybe you should read the documentation more carefully: Servoy lets you create calc field (you can choose if you want to store the result of the calculation in the database or not), the same way FileMaker does, for instance.
I just did it. Thank you so much, it just was not so… intiuitive at first, yet it’s very easy once known.
Thank you so much. I’ll continue my exploration.