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Creating a seating Chart in Alpha

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    Creating a seating Chart in Alpha

    I need to create a seating chart in Alpha - possibly using Drag and Drop, but all suggestions welcome.

    On the left of the screen I will have a list of around 50-55 people. On the right of the screen I will have a similar number of boxes numbered 1 through 56.

    I want to put all of the people on the left into all of the boxes on the right - one by one.

    For visualization, imagine a bus with 56 seats. I am assigning a list of people to each seat in the bus. Visually, it does not need to look exactly like a bus, but it would be nice to have 4 columns of 14 seats each.

    Ideally, I would drag a person from the list on the left into a "seat" on the right. They would then appear over there. I could then drag that person to another seat, swap two people, move them out of a seat and back to the unassigned list. You get the idea.

    The problem is, the only drag and droppable control is a list. (So far as I know.) I don't know that I want 57 lists on the screen. That seems a bit excessive. Not only that but 56 of the lists would only ever have a single value.

    It would be cool if I could do it with 2 lists, and the list on the right knew what seat I was assigning by WHERE on the list I dropped someone, but I don't know how to do that either!

    I don't really have the JavaScript chops to do this myself.

    Suggestions? Anyone have something similar that I can borrow or even buy?

    Note: At this moment, I am not using the latest version of Alpha, but will be moving to it at the end of the month.

    #2
    Re: Creating a seating Chart in Alpha

    Larry,

    Maybe something like:

    Get the person value from the list
    Then just set a flag (e.g. gotPerson = true)
    And on each textbox field use an event such as click.
    the click event checks that gotPerson == true and if so, sets the text field value to the person

    This doesn't require advanced JavaScript I don't think.
    Peter
    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

    [email protected]
    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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      #3
      Re: Creating a seating Chart in Alpha

      That's a great idea.

      I will try that out.

      Thanks!

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        #4
        Re: Creating a seating Chart in Alpha

        One thing, I think you need to set the flag to the dialog object. Otherwise, the textbox might not see it. So:

        {Dialog.object}._gotPerson = true;
        Peter
        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

        [email protected]
        https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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          #5
          Re: Creating a seating Chart in Alpha

          Image mapping takes it to the next level. A few threads on it in the forum here such as this:

          https://forum.alphasoftware.com/show...=image+mapping

          If you want, I can show you what we have in OERCA and how that works as a model if you want.

          Drag & drop would be even nicer than all the point/click though.
          -Steve
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            #6
            Re: Creating a seating Chart in Alpha

            see this post and PM Lee he is a very helpful and talented guy.
            Peter
            https://forum.alphasoftware.com/show...ighlight=image
            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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