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TEN THINGSYOU CAN DO IN TEN MINUTESWITH THE TOOLKIT

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WELCOME BACKTO TEN THINGSThe classic AUDC Tech Track session

The netFORUM Toolkit always surprises with clever and inventive ways to develop solutions for your users, so we’re back with ten more things you can do in ten minutes with the Toolkit.

This year we have a mix of tips from clients, implementation and product partners, and Avectra staff. We hope you can use these tips in your own Toolkit development.

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SAY HELLO TO

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OUR TEAM

Catalyst Fire

Aaron Henselin

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Old Town IT

David Schlum

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HighRoad Solution

Ron McGrath

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Agilutions

Stephen Spruce

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American Hospital Association

Grant Denten

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AAAA

William Keenan

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Nilufer Uslu

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Darryl Hopkins

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jQuery in iWeb(and an added bonus)

Thing 1 and Thing 2

David Schlum

Software Architect

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Calculations

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Enable/Disable Form Save

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Enable/Disable Form Save

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Form Cancel Button Confirmation

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jQuery (Javascript) in iWeb

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• Load Javascript through label extension

– Inline Javascript

– External Files

• Special events for Ajax postbacks

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The Magic

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Label Extension

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Label Extension

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• Don’t forget to add it to the form!

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The Bonus!

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• Conditionally execute form extension

– NoExecute[yes]

– NoExecuteSQL[select 'noexecute' where 1=1]

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#3 Event Reg CC and BCC

• We wanted to get registrant info out to the instructors so they could contact the registrant. We decided the easiest way to do that was to was to cc the instructor on registration confirmation. We did not want to create a different template for each event so we implemented the following solution.

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Event Extender Columns

• Enter the email addresses:

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• Correspondence template:

• When confirmation emails are sent to the registrant, the instructor and staff contact automatically are cc’d and bcc’d.

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Steps to Implement

• Add extender columns to ev_event_ext table for the “cc email address” and “bcc email address”.

• Design the “Edit Event” page and add these extender fields to the Form as Form Controls.

• In the correspondence template that goes to registrants as a confirmation email, set the two “alternative” fields on the bottom of the form to go to the parsed values of the two extender fields.

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SAY HELLO TOOUR TEAMMeet your amazing team!

Ronald McGrath

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HighRoad Solution

#4 Using theToolkit’s ExecuteMethod

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Invoices

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Confirmations

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How do we retrieve

relational data to power

emails?

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ExecuteMethod

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Set-up Stored Procedure

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Set-up Web Service

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Expose via Web Method

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Toolkit Advantages

• More efficient for retrieving complex data types

• Faster retrieval of Big data

• Can be easier to set-up for DBAs

• See ExecuteMethod for more.

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• We have used SQL Views in Table’s Lists before: http://wiki.avectra.com/View

• Did you know that you can also use SQL Views as data objects?

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SQL VIEW asDATA OBJECT#5 Yes, it is doable!

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SQL VIEW asDATA OBJECTDisplay Receives Member Benefits Flag on Committee Participation Profile

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SQL VIEW asDATA OBJECTOr Make the Flag Available on Committee Participation Templates

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SQL VIEW asDATA OBJECTHow?

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SQL VIEW asDATA OBJECTThe Object will have a Data Object to the SQL View

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SQL VIEW asDATA OBJECTKey Points

• The object must be a DynamicFacade object

• Must check do not save data? flag on data object

• May affect performance: every time the object is loaded, data from the View will also be selected

• Allows quick access to data from a SQL View on:– Toolkit designed forms

– Marketing correspondence templates

– eWeb list content details

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#6 Reports & Sub-Reports

• Grant Denten, American Hospital Association

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Principles

• Use sub-report(s) and nest them in main report

• Easier to manage reports this way by breaking complicated report layouts into smaller and more manageable chunks

• Use one sub-report in multiple “main” reports

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EVERYDAYDATA CHALLENGES

Create

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Read Update Delete

#7, Aaron Henselin, Catalyst Fire

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What’s wrong with child

forms in netFORUM?• Performance

– Synchronous loading (open child form syndrome)

– Paging

• One size fits all (no extensibility)

• No inline editing

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What’s wrong with child

forms in netFORUM?• Can’t size to fit content

• Usage restrictions

– no wizards

– no action=add

• Placement restrictions

• No search functionality

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CRUD meets its match:DATATABLES

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• True async

• Providers

• SQL

• façade

• fully custom

• Attach anywhere

• Cached

• Instant search

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CRUD meets its match:DATATABLES

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• Pick your provider

• Provider tags

• Placement options

• Demo!

• Available:

Collective dues: now

Everybody else: 2013?

provider[Avectra.netForum.Data.AsyncDat

aTable.Providers.SQLDataTableServicePro

vider,data]

sql[ac_invoice_detail_x_customer_summar

y {inv_key}]

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#8 Adding HTML to iWeb Form Control

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Stephen Spruce

Agilutions

CTO and Co-Founder

Developing with netFORUM since 2003

Attended every AUDC

Self proclaimed Process Junkie

Not a web developer

Loves to design and build code tools for reuse

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#8 Adding HTML to iWeb Form Control

• Have you ever wanted to have iWeb Form content longer than 250 characters?

• Have you ever wanted to style iWeb Form content on a form

• Have you ever wanted to add HTML content to an iWeb Form?

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Problem

• md_dynamic_form_control.dys_value has 250 character limit

• HTML tags are “stripped” when rendered/stored

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Solution

• Table and Forms to store HTML content

• Custom Form Extension to display content on an iWeb Form

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Custom Table

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#9 Child Form – Static Edit Form

• Have you ever wanted to default an additional property to a record being added by a Child Form?

• You an append additional querystring values using the static edit form property.

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Example

• From Event, add event source code, need to default source code type to Event Registration. The Event Key gets set in the grid

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Child Form

• On the child form definition, advanced window:

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Examples

• Useful for when you need to set data that doesn’t exist in the parent Object.

• Can use parsed values dependent on parent page, for example: &cor_cst_key={dnr_cst_key}

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#10 &Design=yes|no Toggle

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iWeb Toggle

• Beginning in netFORUM 2011, you can add &design=no to hide the Toolkit design links in iWeb.

• Useful when you’re doing Toolkit development, but want to see netFORUM without the design links so you can see what the page will look like from the end user’s perspective.

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Adding Design Toggle Favorites

• Add a browser favorite and enter the following for eWeb

javascript:location.href=location.href.replace(/[&]?design=[a-

z]*/,'')+(location.href.indexOf('?')<0?'?':'')+'&design='+(document.body.in

nerHTML.indexOf('Edit Site Default Content')<0?'yes':'no');

• For iWeb (almost the same):javascript:location.href=location.href.replace(/[&]?design=[a-

z]*/,'')+(location.href.indexOf('?')<0?'?':'')+'&design='+(document.body.in

nerHTML.indexOf('Design this content form')<0?'yes':'no');

• Maybe there’s a way to have one favorite work for both?

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