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    #1

    Another Best Approach Question

    As I explained in my previous question, I have a table that contains a 48 charater field that contains entries such as

    00000001111111000000011111112221111100000

    These represnt the number of bookings taken for a vehicle for each of the halfhours during a day.

    In our current software we use an embedded browse with 30 odd fields (we only realy cover 07:00 - 2300 ) where we set the colour to yellow for not booked, green for booked and red for double or more booked.

    I attach a file showing a sample.

    I would be interested in suggestions of the best way to approach this in A5.

    Thanks

    John
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    #2
    RE: Another Best Approach Question

    Try again with the file

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      #3
      RE: Another Best Approach Question

      John

      With this method, you are allowing and then showing when an overbooking is made. Do you want to do that or check when a booking is made to ensure that availability is there and then make the booking?
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        #4
        RE: Another Best Approach Question

        Here's one way
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          RE: Another Best Approach Question

          Picture, if you want to see that first.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            RE: Another Best Approach Question

            WE are happy for double bookings to be made, this situation can exist whilst alternatives are sorted out and having it in red on the screen clearly shows as issue has to be resolved.

            For example we might take a booking for a single day that is put against bus 1 initially, we might a week later have another booking which is for a whole week and the best bus to let go is bus 1, as it has least bookings, when the booking is entered it will cause a double booking with the origional booking, and the staff will normally come back to sort that out later.

            Ta

            John

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              #7
              RE: Another Best Approach Question

              I like it but how do I put it in a browes type approach as we need more than one row at a time, for example if a client wants to book a bus every monday for 5 weeks, I want to be able to show the data for those five days.

              Ta

              John

              (PS can I build a browse that just shows calculated fields ?)

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                #8
                RE: Another Best Approach Question

                Why not just go to the Properties of each column and enter a color equation:

                IF("Col_A_name>=0,"Black on Yellow",IF("Col_A_name>=1,"Black on Green","White on Red"))

                You would have to change the name reference in each column and this would be a bit tedious to do 40 times but you could copy everything else and just enter the column name. (You can probably also do it with the genie but I think it's a bit difficult to cut-and-paste to the genie.)

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                  #9
                  RE: Another Best Approach Question

                  If you really want to make the numbers disappear, just make them both the same color such as "Green on Green".

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                    #10
                    RE: Another Best Approach Question

                    I agree with Cal and Stan that these approaches are suitable for the occasion. But when building a matrix-sort of display which involved many squares, another approach is more algebraic . This approach can assign colors within a loop as opposed to copying and pasting the properties of so many squares. Also, once set up a change can easily be made (e.g. a new color for a different situation) without copying and pasting every square.

                    How is this done. If you look at Peter Greulich's "Three-Month Holiday Calendar" on the Code Archive forum, you get the idea:

                    http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/alphaphorum/read.php3?sortby=lastreply&direction=desc&num=7&id=384&thread=384

                    He uses "inactive" buttons (no events assigned) to display information. With these button object names being, say, "BOTTON01", BUTTON02", etc. you can change the color of the 23rd button with the lines:
                    ------
                    i=23
                    vObject = "BUTTON"+PADL(alltrim(Str(i)),2,"0")
                    eval(vObject+".fill.forecolor") = "Green"
                    ------

                    The same such statement can change the text of the buttons, the font color, etc. Thus, with a short script you can change the appearance of a massive display. Just another thought.

                    Steve

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                      #11
                      RE: Another Best Approach Question

                      John,

                      Why not populate a dummy table with your 5-days? Then use color equations, etc. in an embedded browse.

                      Peter
                      Peter
                      AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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                      https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                        #12
                        RE: Another Best Approach Question

                        Forgot to say: the dummy table can have 48 or more fields for each record. Parse your 48 character field into the 48 fields, etc.
                        Peter
                        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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                          #13
                          RE: Another Best Approach Question

                          browse version
                          There can be only one.

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                            #14
                            RE: Another Best Approach Question

                            Thanks for this every one this has given me plenty to think about and I'll let you know how I implement it in the end.

                            It may be a few weeks before I do as I'm focusing on writing the scripts etc I need in the current system for export the data that I need into the new A5 application.

                            Thanks again

                            John

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