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Hello hello Arturas hi Dmitry :) reinhard (~reinhard@M692P020.adsl.highway.telekom.at) joined #gnuenterprise. hello reinhard reinhard: will your discussion with kid bring one more email in halloween series? :) ra3vat: probably not i think we agree on most topics except maybe which is the best editor ;-) great :) Arturas (~arturas@gsk.vtu.lt) left irc: Remote closed the connection Arturas (~arturas@gsk.vtu.lt) joined #gnuenterprise. hi again wb ninja (~rossg@ip-3.nb326.ipstar.cscoms.com) joined #gnuenterprise. ninja (~rossg@ip-3.nb326.ipstar.cscoms.com) left irc: "Client Exiting" jbailey (~jbailey@65.48.140.35) joined #gnuenterprise. jamest (~jamest@adsl-65-71-168-128.dsl.tpkaks.swbell.net) joined #gnuenterprise. The crew slowly shows up. yes :) Well, lets see if the Hurd likes my system jbailey (~jbailey@65.48.140.35) left irc: "Client Exiting" bye Arturas (~arturas@gsk.vtu.lt) left irc: "Bye :)" hmm.. is it possible to use a form to dynamicly create another form? eg: have a form with an entry box when run and I enter 3, I get another form with 3 entry boxes.. seems like you can.. just using a trigger, the value of the entry, build the new form and hit it with runForm()..? dont see why you couldnt Or for that matter, build a form dynamicly based on values within a datasource..? same thing? setup the datasource use an on-startup trigger ... ? importing things from designer could make it easier as well i.e. you shouldnt have to write the form create routines too much but rather take data entered and use 'wizards' guts or such forms just became a little more interesting.. =) Action: derek isnt sure why that made it more interesting i.e. not sure why you would want to make forms too much within forms i would suspect it would be easier to write custom wizards for designer to get more power for less work i.e. all wizards are merely plugins psu (psu@public1-wear2-3-cust42.midd.broadband.ntl.com) joined #gnuenterprise. well.. I've been thinking about the SKU thing.. I can imagine 3 ways to organize a SKU.. 1) Simple serialized number which is N digits long. 2) A number with N segments one or more of which are a serialized number and one or more are derived from predefined lookup tables and 3) a segmented number completely derived from lookup tables just as well, I imagine 2 ways to handle the segments 1) a predefined padded length (2 would give a of 00-99), 2) delimited with or without a contraint on their length/scope.. I know there are many different ways it has been implemented, so I was thinking if there was a way to configure how a SKU were established, then you could use that information to create your forms to manipulate them based on that configuration. eg: we could have a table something like: id, segorder=to set a sorta pecking order for how the segments are put to , segtype=alpha? numeric? hexidecimal? etc.., segdelimiter=if it's a delimited sku, how? period? dash? or none?, segsize=what's the length if there's a size constraint?, srctype=is this a serialized segment or derived from a lookup?, srctbl=if a lookup, what table?, description=what's this segment represent? I was imagining that each row in that table defined a segment. In a form to maintain skus that table could be queried and buil form according to the data extrapolated. Descriptions would be labels, if the segment was a lookup a dropdown could be created, etc.. jamest (~jamest@adsl-65-71-168-128.dsl.tpkaks.swbell.net) left irc: "[x]chat" too much to read :) I'm suprised xchat's input buffer is that larger (well, larger even).. =) i cant read all that in xchat jbailey (~jbailey@65.48.140.35) joined #gnuenterprise. way i planned on doing it was drop downs and triggers you selected the 'categories' or such that generate the numbers any news on the gnue-sb lists? no :( i really think making a dynamic form is a bad solution at least in the gnue world maybe for gnue proper but getting sku numbers that complex in gnue-sb i think is over kill i would suspect (at least from my clients) the big thing is they want 'smarter' part numbers and dont want to have to pull number out of arse when a new part comes in though they want to be able to change things so i would see categories as drop down types that have a number associated each type then displays the number so say i have 3 types cat1 cat2 cat3 in the drop down for cat1 i select 23 - Monster Trucks cat 2 12 - Suspension cat3 right, well, my concern there is 2 fold. first is it seems like that would create very large numbers and very large numbers are hard to manage outside of the computer. and second, if I were a consultant this could be a bonus to be able to adapt to a running system rather than expect a migration if things didnt fit. 20 - Coil Spring and that creates in labels 23 - 12 - 20 ok, well.. if there were only 3 categories that would be different then in number (where person can enter) they select 493 so now label says 23-12-20-493 then there is button where you can make that label popluate the sku # but by no means are you forced to use that number i.e. the sku# is a free form field but you can use the categories to generate a number and use it if you like gnue-sb will likely work this way as that how the first user would like it to work reinhard (~reinhard@M692P020.adsl.highway.telekom.at) left irc: Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer) who is the first user, btw.. =) I intend to make use of it as well.. So in doing this I think of my own needs primarily. Vee2d2 - itch-scratching, the basis of all good free software ;-) as it is, my numbers are completely derived from lookup tables and are in 5 segments/categories psu: amen derek: based on your examples here and before, I'm guessing the customer is a parts shop or dealership..? =) http://www.unlimitedengineering.com/ weee! look at that dude fly! =) all i can say is they are 100 times more impressive in person and im not a car fan oh wait.. these are rc? niftyroo! anyhow your 5 segments and what im talking about should work and still be flexible s'pose the create own form on the fly scares me too much especially when im already behind schedule :) food for thought, though? yeah wish the lists worked :( so that you could send what you pasted there and i could read it and chew on it all run into three paragraphs made it hard to follow I have it all noted down in my scratch txts and will send as soon as they're working for broader conversation on the topic.. cool reinhard (~reinhard@M692P020.adsl.highway.telekom.at) joined #gnuenterprise. reinhard: he's a coding, coding, coding machine from time to time ;-) Action: derek is away: hog tying children V_laptop (~vin@c66.169.136.41.ftwrth.tx.charter.com) joined #gnuenterprise. 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Nick change: reinhard -> rm-away sigh this is sick searching for "layout management" on google we are in top 10 results that's wrong lol, let's talk more about goats then jcater: how to access parameters in report triggers? jcater: There aren't that many things in life dedicated just to layout stuff. jcater_ (~jason@cpe-066-061-083-220.midsouth.rr.com) joined #gnuenterprise. jcater_ (~jason@cpe-066-061-083-220.midsouth.rr.com) left irc: Client Quit xetrex (~chatzilla@dsl-kpogw5ed2.dial.inet.fi) joined #gnuenterprise. dsmith (dsmith@oh-strongsvillecadent1-1c-203.clvhoh.adelphia.net) joined #gnuenterprise. dsmith (dsmith@oh-strongsvillecadent1-1c-203.clvhoh.adelphia.net) left irc: "later.." Action: jbailey is away: Doing a puzzle. V_laptop (~vin@c66.169.136.41.ftwrth.tx.charter.com) joined #gnuenterprise. matkor (~matkor@charm.ant.gliwice.pl) joined #gnuenterprise. anyone has a report trigger? how to reach cparam, cconst values from trigger code? how should I use the .04to0.5 conversor? run it with your form as param ra3vat: uh, the resulting form does not work... xetrex (~chatzilla@dsl-kpogw5ed2.dial.inet.fi) left irc: "ChatZilla 0.8.11 [Mozilla rv:1.3a/20021212]" orig form will be saved with -PRE050 name old form will be saved with -PRE050 name ra3vat: no, the new one does not work with current cvs og gnue. in most cases mine worked ok, I'll finish the file by hand what the errors it raises? ra3vat: it's a c:x in logic i had something like this when tried to run old form with new code StyXman: you will have to provide more information for us to help you ra3vat: d'you know how can I realize if the form is right? jcater: I can give the original file. ? I meant, if the .gfd is a valid xml file? the first thing I got was Error processing