Category: Contact Management Application
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Tutorial: Lesson 9 Contact App Field Rules
Hello Everyone In the last training session I said we would discuss the memo entry process and the differences between a standard memo field and a rich text memo field. As I was setting up this lesson, I noticed there were several things that needed to be done before we could actually do that. Alpha…
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Tutorial : Lesson eight controlling data entry with forms
Hello everyone Today we will discuss the various types of forms available for data entry into Alpha Software. Typically when you design your application and you build your tables and sets you will bind your forms to your set or tables and use those for data entry . Alpha software provides additional methods for creating…
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Tutorial: Lesson Seven Contact App On Fetch Event
Hello everyone Today we are discussing four separate topics. Each of these topics are used to create and manage a new list object on our application. Table layout and design On Fetch Event Getting records from an external database Building a list object If we look at the structure of the People table, we see…
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Tutorial: Lesson Six Contact App Progressive Lookup
Hello Everyone. Today we will look in greater detail about form design and add some new components to our People form. As we discussed in the previous lesson, the form in the default app is disjointed, cluttered and awkward to use. Look at our new form below to see the differences. This new form introduces…
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Tutorial: Lesson: Five Contact App Passing data values to the default browser
Hello everyone. Today we are going to discuss how to supercharge your Contact application by including Web Interface. We will discuss how to pass data values stored in a local table to the users default browser performing search’s and queries. For this example, we use Google maps to show how it works. On our original…
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Tutorial: Contact Management App Lesson Four
Hello everyone, it’s Monday and I hope you had a nice weekend. Today’s lesson will show you how to create a conditional object and make it appear as a tabbed form on the displayed page. A tabbed form is an excellent way to organize and display data information on the screen, but outside of that…
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Tutorial: Contact Management App Lesson Three
Hello everyone, and welcome back As we mentioned yesterday we will be discussing how to send a report to an external file viewer. First, lets look at the print preview code which is attached to the original print preview report button on the main menu. When you look at the on push event for the…
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Tutorial: Lesson One Building a Contact Management Application
Hello everyone, we are starting a programming lesson on how to build a Contact Management Application is Alpha Software. We will be using version 10 of their development platform. First Lesson we are going to show how to build a complete application using the free Contact App distributed with Alpha Software v10 Each Lesson will…
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