Hello Forum, hello Servoy Team,
This is my first post here. So let me first introduce myself: As developpers, we are working with FMPro since its debut, as other Servoy developpers, we are looking for a replacement for FMPro for some (not all) of our solutions. Three years ago, we didn’t found such a replacement, but at beginning of april we gave Servoy a try…
Using a demo version, we managed to migrate a part of our +50 FMPro solution. At that point, it appears that mostly all features will be easely transferred to Servoy except for one: our use of FMPro repeating fields.
Most of the “infamous” FMPro Repeating Fields can be replaced, by a portal on a related table. But one feature is not doable at this time in Servoy: the ability to display these fields horizontally or vertically, including calculated fields.
To transpose this feature to servoy, we will need either to display a “rotated” table in a portal, with fields (columns) as rows and records (rows) as culumns, quite a disturbing feature idea hmm?
So, before requesting such a feature, I prefer to ask the community if you already come to that point, and how you managed it.
We already found some beginning of a trail:
a/ For simple Repeating fields, only needed for the ability to find in any occurence by searching into only one, we wrote a global method.
b/ For complex arrays of datas & calculated repeating fields, we think to use a bean, for instance jTable or any other mean to transpose rows and columns to user interface.
So, to make it short, does anybody have THE solution? Does anybody have an example of an implementation of jTable bean in Servoy (using it as a spreadsheet)?
Or may be do you need a more precise example?
Anyway, congratulations to Servoy team and cheers to Forum users.