I've got a list view and a button. The list view has columns "Server Name", "Operating System" and "Description". The button populates the list view with computer records from Active Directory.
The columns are clickable, and sort the list view as relevant.
When doing the comparisons, should I be using the user's current culture settings, or should I use the invariant culture?
I would use invariant, since neither "Servername", "Operating system" or "Description" changes if you change language.
Only place, where culture concideration are important are when you are dealing with numbers and dates.
Hope it helps
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I have a question that I don't really know how to ask. For context, I am making a sheet to organize a large collection of cards in various different locations. Then I have other lists that I want to "gather all the required items" for from those various locations. However, it's possible to have multiple instances of items in the various locations. (Eg, location four could have the same card as location one, but I only need to know about location one). So I have conditional formatting set up to color code each thing I need based on which location it's in (with a preferred order since certain locations are "better" to pull from). Sheet for reference. Check the "Deck Compare" tab
Image of the "part in question"
On to what I want to achieve. This conditional formatting is nice, but I'd really like for the lists to be grouped by which collection the item is in! Ideally, in the same order as the key. I know that "sort by color" is a thing, but since the lists are dynamic and based on a QUERY, sorting doesn't really work.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm still fairly new to spreadsheeting and still learning how to go about solving these types of problems. If my question is unclear, please let me know!
I want to create an "Add Address" view, a very basic "Street, City, Zip, Country" type of page: multiple text fields inside a table view. This is simple if you only ever added U.S addresses, but I'm not sure about how to do this the right way though, handling all international use-cases as well. Essentially:
1. How do you pick the right field label for each country? For e.g. for US / Australian addresses, the field should be called "State"; for UK, it's called "County", in some places it's called "Province". How do you know what the label should say (short of hard-coding logic myself for each country)?
2. How do you validate the values for those field? UK postal codes have a certain format, whereas in the US it's a 5-digit ZIP code. Also, in the US, there is a list of states that the user can select. How do you get that list?
I've looked into NSLocale, and can't find any way to do this. Surely there must be a good and easy way to do this?
I dug around and in the end the best thing I found was a guide on "The good international address field form", but it'll still be hard to validate it. I don't think it's done.
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2008/06/international-address-fields-in-web-forms.php
One method could be to reverse lookup the address through mapkit.
You can try to simplify the UI by adding just one text field and ask user to enter his address in an arbitrary way, and then use CLGeocoder class to convert the string to instance of CLPlacemark, which is a convenient container for such information as country, postal code, etc.
When choosing 'Add' in CRUD, how best to generate a list of choices to pick from a dropdown?
For U/update - just display what's there...
The field contents starts with a letter, followed by five numeric digits:{A-I,K-N,Z}#####
Each letter has a different 'max' value for the numeric part.
So when adding a new record, I'd like to offer a listbox with one of each letter and that letter's highest numeric value + 10.
So, if the max 'A' as A00120, and max 'B' B00030 (etc) the listbox would have A00130 and B00040.. etc
Save the user having to figure out which is 'next' when generating a new record.
? Thanks,
Mark
This time I'll not be able to come up with ready to use solution, but I must say - everything is possible with ATK4. You just have to customize and extend it to fit your needs :)
Speaking about your question above - I guess you have to split it in multiple parts.
First part is about how to show select box on Create and readonly or disabled field on Update. I guess you can make some custom Form field or pin some action to existing Form Field hook. Not sure exactly what's better in this case.
Second one is about data structure. I believe that this field actually should be 2 fields in DB and maybe (only maybe) merged together in ATK model with addExpression() just for user interface needs to display these 2 fields as one field easily in UI. Maybe such concatenated field will be useful also for searching, but definitely not as only one field stored in DB. Imagine how hard it'll be for DB engine to find max value if such field. Store it like type = letter, num = number and then search like SELECT max(num)+10 FROM t WHERE type='A'
Finally Third part is about how to generate this next number. I read your question 3 times and came to conclusion that actually you don't have to show this +10 numeric value in UI at all if it's hardly predefined anyway. Actually that'll not work correctly if this will be multi-user system which I guess it will. Instead just show simple select box with letters {A-I,K-N,Z} and calculate this next value exactly before inserting data in DB. That can be done using models insert hook. This will be much more appropriate solution and will be better for UI and also more stable because calculated in model not incorrectly in UI part.
Am not sure on how to do this but I will describe it and hopefully you all can come up with a good solution. I want to have a box (not sure if its an input of search box) that when someone types in the box it pulls values from my database and shows the closest match based on characters being typed in. If the word that is typed by the user is not there then when the form is submitted then the word is added to a database.
Additionally I want to have an add button next to the box, so that if the user wants to add more than one word they can. This means that when the add is clicked a duplicate of the first box appears which does the same thing. The values will be stored in an array.
Any idea how I can go about doing this?
I have a SharePoint feature which programatically creates 3 lookups in a custom list, one from each of 3 different lists via extremely similar CAML markup.
The only differences in the CAML are the List, ID, Name, DisplayName and StaticName properties yet one of these lookups looks slightly different (has a slightly more "modern" drop-down arrow) than the other two and this same menu requires I double-click in order to select an item instead of single-clicking as I do with the other lookups.
Might anyone have seen this before and have an idea of what I might look into to make this lookup operate as a single-click menu?
The style of dropdown displayed is usually related to the number of items, although it also renders as a standard select element when viewed in firefox.
For any other field type it would make sense to create a custom field control, but due to code that expects things to be named "Lookup", lookup fields are next to impossible to extend.
The best way to customize a specific field is probably with javascript/jquery. When you click on the dropdown arrow, ShowDropdown (in core.js) is called. This creates a select element with options set from the pipe delimited list in the choices attribute of the textbox.
Add some code to the page so that on load EnsureSelect and FilterChoice or similar are called to create the select element. Set properties on the textbox and select elements so that the textbox as hidden and the select element is a visible dropdown. Have SetCtrlFromOpt called on change rather than on blur/double click so that the control that the server will read and save is properly updated.
The same approach could be used to keep the combo box but add a click event to set the value rather than requiring a double click.
How many items has the source list of every lookup field?
Lookup fields shows a "Combo" when the source list has 10 items (I'm not sure if 10 item is the exact limit). When the source list has more than 10 items the lookup field shows a "ListArea" control that works as you said.
I have exactly the same problem. One difference I have noticed is that the one listbox that requires a double-click is a lookup field, whereas the one that doesn't is a choice field with pre-populated choices. Don't know if that helps.