I currently have a form in InfoPath with a repeating table eg:
Author | Location | Book (repeating table)
What I am trying to achieve is:
Author | Location | Book (Title1),Book (Title2),Book (Title3) etc
I understand that this is a short explanation - so feel free to request further info, if needed.
The Book field writes the first entry, ignoring book2, book3 etc. I need the field to work like an array field1(book1),field2(Book2), etc. Everytime the text field is repeated a new field should be created, saving the value.
It sounds like you just need a nested repeating table. Here's an example with the nested table having just one column (you can delete the header row).
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I need to define and create indices for a postgresql DB used for translation memory.
This is related to this (Database design question regarding performance) question I've posted and the oversimplified design follows this (How to design a database for translation dictionary?) answer. The only difference being I have a Segment (basically a sentence instead of a word).
Tables:
I. languages
ID NAME
---------------
1 English
2 Slovenian
II. segments
ID CONTENT LANGUAGE_ID
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1 Hello World 1
2 Zdravo, svet 2
III. translation_records (TranslationRecord has more columns, omitted here, like domain, user etc.)
ID SOURCE_SEGMENT_ID TARGET_SEGMENT_ID
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1 1 2
I want to index the segments table for when searching existing translations and for when searching combination of words in the DB.
My question is, is it enough to create an index for the segments table for the CONTENT column or should I also tokenize the CONTENT column to a new column TOKENS and index that as well?
Also, am I missing something else that might be important for creating such indices?
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Querying examples:
When a user enters a new text to translate, the app returns predefined number of existing translation records where source segment's content matches by a certain percent with the entered text.
When a user triggers a manual query to list a predefined number of existing translation records where source segment's content includes the words marked by the user (i.e. the concordance search).
Since there is only one table for all language combinations the first condition for querying would be the language_combination (attribute of translation_record).
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I'm new to Filemaker.
I want to create a database for my library.
Lets say we have a text field for the title of each book (book_title) and a container field for the cover photo (cover_photo).
I'd like to help me write a script that would allow me to copy the photo (that is, the content of "cover_photo") from one record to the other if the field "book_title" is identical within two records.
For example: lets say I have 5 copies of a book in my library. For the first copy I'll create a new record and I'll write the title in "book_title" field and I'll insert a photo in "cover_photo" field. But for the second/third/... copy I'd like to write only the title and, since it will match with the title of the first record, enter automatically the photo in the first "cover_photo" field without inserting it again.
I'd appreciate any help.
Thank you.
IMHO, it would be much better to use two tables, say Titles and Exemplars, with a one-to-many relationship between them. The cover photo would be stored in a field in Titles, and all the child exemplars could display it without you having to duplicate it.
This is assuming you have something unique to record about each exemplar - otherwise you could simply have a field for Quantity in the Titles table.
My CMS is currently Movable Type 5.04. The attached screenshot is how I check in Compose Screen of MT CMS.
And it appears in the new entry create page with the following order.
- Location 5
- Job Description 5
- Bio 5
- Job Title 5
I would like to change the order into following.
- Job Title 5
- Location 5
- Job Description 5
- Bio 5
Is there any way to do so? I have checked in the cfg_entry.tmpl file and the above Entry fields were not there as there were custom fields. Could you please help me sort them like above?
the order of the fields are stored into the permission table, in 'permission_entry_prefs' field. (and there is a matching field for the page)
the row with blog_id 0 is the user defaults, and each blog's raw will override the default for this blog.
and the format is very simple: comma delimited list. you should find there something like "title,text,tags,assets". just reorder them for your liking.
If the user will toggle on and off fields, I'm not sure if the original order will return or not. if it does, then a simple plugin can solve it in more permanent way.
I remember doing this by recreating the custom fields in the wanted order (MT pulls them from the DB in a specific order, sorted by ID IIRC). If you have existing data, then you need to delete the fields definitions (not the data) then recreate them in the order you want changing just their numerical ID (not anything else).
I'm traveling and busy at the moment so can't dig into details. But study how CF are defined in the DB and how to simply reorder them by ID.
I'm new to reporting services so this question might be insane. I am looking for a way to create an empty 'template' report (that is basically a form letter) rather than having to create one for every client in our system. Part of this form letter is a section that has any number of 25 specific fields. The section is arranged as such:
Name: Jesse James
Date of Birth: 1/1/1800
Address: 123 Blah Blah Street
Anywhere, USA 12345
Another Field: Data
Another Field2: More Data
Those (and any of the other fields the client specifies) could be arranged in any order and the label on the left could be whatever the client decides (example: 'DOB' instead of 'Date of Birth'). IDEALLY, I'd like to be able to have a web interface where you can click on the fields you want, specify the order in which they'll appear, and specify what the custom label is. I figured out a way to specify the labels and order them (and load them 'dynamically' in the report) but I wanted to take it one step further if I could and allow dynamic field (right side) selection and ordering. The catch is, I want to do this without using dynamic SQL. I went down the path of having a configuration table that contained an ordinal, custom label text, and the actual column name and attempting to join that table with the table that actually contains the data via information_schema.columns. Maybe querying ALL of the potential fields and having an INNER JOIN do my filtering (if there's a match from the 'configuration' table, etc). That doesn't work like I thought it would :) I guess I was thinking I could simulate the functionality of a dataset (it having the value and field name baked in to the object). I realize that this isn't the optimal tool to be attempting such a feat, it's just what I'm forced to work with.
The configuration table would hold the configuration for many customers/reports and I would be filtering by a customer ID. The config table would look somthing like this:
CustID LabelText ColumnName Ordinal
1 First Name FName 1
1 Last Name LName 2
1 Date of Birth DOBirth 3
2 Client ID ClientID 1
2 Last Name LName 2
2 Address 1 Address1 3
2 Address 2 Address2 4
All that to say:
Is there a way to pull off the above mentioned query?
Am I being too picky about not using dynamic SQL as the section in question will only be pulling back one row? However, there are hundreds of clients running this report (letter) two or three times a day.
Also, keep in mind I am not trying to dynamically create text boxes on the report. I will either just concatenate the fields into a single string and dump that into a text box or I'll have multiple reports each with a set number of text boxes expecting a generic field name ("field1",etc). The more I type, the crazier this sounds...
If there isn't a way to do this I'll likely finagle something in custom code; but my OCD side wants to believe there is SQL beyond my current powers that can do this in a slicker way.
Not sure why you need this all returned in one row: it seems like SSRS would want this normalized further: return a row for every row in the configuration table for the current report. If you really need to concatenate then do that in Embedded code in the report, or consider just putting a table in the form letter. The query below makes some assumptions about your configuration table. Does it only hold the cofiguration for the current report, or does it hold the config for many customers/reports at once? Also you didn't give much info about how you'll filter to the appropriate record, so I just used a customer ID.
SELECT
config.ordinal,
config.LabelText,
CASE config.ColumnName
WHEN 'FName' THEN DataRecord.FirstName
WHEN 'LName' THEN DataRecord.LastName
WHEN 'ClientID' THEN DataRecord.ClientID
WHEN 'DOBirth' THEN DataRecord.DOB
WHEN 'Address' THEN DataRecord.Address
WHEN 'Field' THEN DataRecord.Field
WHEN 'Field2' THEN DataRecord.Field2
ELSE
NULL
END AS response
FROM
ConfigurationTable AS config
LEFT OUTER JOIN
DataTable AS DataRecord
ON config.CustID = DataRecord.CustomerID
WHERE DataRecord.CustomerID = #CustID
ORDER BY
config.Ordinal
There are other ways to do this, in SSRS or in SQL, depends on more details of your requirements.
Very new to Filemaker. Using Filemaker 11 pro.
I was wondering if it was possible to renumber an ID field column after doing an insert new record in between records? Maybe using a script trigger?
thanks
I agree with Jesse that renumbering a record's unique ID/Index doesn't sound like a good idea and more information or an example of what you're trying to do would help.
If you simply want to display the Record Number, you could create an unstored calculation field with the calculation "Get ( RecordNumber )". This should always display which record, of the found set, is being displayed. FileMaker's definition is available here: http://www.filemaker.com/help/html/func_ref2.32.55.html
If, on the other hand, you're trying to make a unique sort order for the records being shown, it is best to do this by creating a new SortIndex numeric field. (You'd need to make certain that the layout that you're displaying was always sorted by the SortIndex field which can be done using layout script triggers and, possibly, overriding the Sort menu commands using Custom Menus.)
One method to consider would be overriding the New Record command using Custom Menus. When New Record is selected you might route it to a script which does something like this:
Get the current SortIndex value
Get the value of the SortIndex for the next record (by creating a self-join which shows records where the SortIndex > the SortIndex of the table occurrence your view is based on)
Place the average of those two values in a $variable
Create a new record and set its SortIndex to $variable