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    Newbie stuck at an early hurdle

    Hi I'm really new to AA. just purchased a few weeks ago and have been working through all the vids and pdfs.
    I am a full time MS Access/SQL developer and needing to move forward into mobile development and chose AA as my platform of choice.

    I am trying to do a test mobile app (I have a client I am trying to impress) and failing at an early hurdle.
    I've reviewed the training video for 2 nights now and thought it was about time I got some experienced eyes to look at it for me.

    Essentially I keep getting "Record Not Found" errors.

    I have made a short video to explain my problem and show you all the settings I currently have.
    Any assistance would be appreciated.

    The short video is available here (short cos Jing only lets me do 5 min vids, but I do love it!)
    http://screencast.com/t/4UNZQQJPY

    Thanks heaps.
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    Additional info.
    I am trying to achieve the following:
    Page 1: list of trucks [Unique Key from grouped data=TruckID] > select a truck to view future days with work scheduled (truckID links to days/shifts)
    page 2: list of days/shifts with loads [FK: truckID, PK: ManifestID] > select a day/shift to view the list of loads for that shift (ManifestID links to Loads list)
    page 3: list of loads showing basic info (start time, pickup, dropoff, product) [FK:manifestID, PK: ManifestLoadID] > select a load to show detail view (manifestLoadID links to detail view)
    page 4: detail view of load (start time, pickup, dropoff, product, permitted max weight, linked pdf's for site instructions, status of load (started, completed etc - editable), weight loaded (entered by driver), links to maps.
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    Re: Newbie stuck at an early hurdle

    Hi Brad,

    Welcome to Alpha.

    I'd say you have more of a Parent / Child relationship going on with the Lists you've shown in your video.

    Currently you're using "Populate controls in a UX Component with data from tables" which isn't meant for populating a List control.

    Your ListLoadedDays List Control wants to be filtered on a TruckID. Setting "Has Parent list" in this List control to your hasTrucks List control may get you going again.

    How about posting your UX along with an sql export of your tables so that the best solution can be found for this.

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      #3
      Re: Newbie stuck at an early hurdle

      Thanks David.
      I'll give this a go when I get back to my work PC (72 hours away). I'll let you know.

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        #4
        Re: Newbie stuck at an early hurdle

        Hi Brad,

        Your arrow image doesn't show because it's off the screen. Your list is 3in high by 4in wide, that's wider than the iphone screen. Change the width, or uncheck mobile and you should see it.

        As David says, parent/child lists is the way to go. This video and this video should help, here is the transcript for video 1 and video 2

        Good luck.

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          #5
          Re: Newbie stuck at an early hurdle

          All the above points are valid, but you have not set TruckID in SQL as the primary Key, else it would have shown towards the end of you video, you just can't make up what primary key is for this purpose. -It needs to be a real primary key in the database.
          Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
          Albert Einstein, (attributed)
          US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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            #6
            Re: Newbie stuck at an early hurdle

            Thank You all.
            I finally got back to this today and had it all working perfectly within 20 minutes, using parent/child lists . I can now move forward.

            Cheers
            Brad

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