Alpha Software Mobile Development Tools:   Alpha Anywhere    |   Alpha TransForm subscribe to our YouTube Channel  Follow Us on LinkedIn  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Facebook

Announcement

Collapse

The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
See more
See less

How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

    I'm looking into using Alpha 5 . I would like to know or be pointed in the direction of how to bring data into a desktop application when the data was originally entered in a form on the web. Any help would be appreciated.

    #2
    Re: How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

    if the web application was in Alpha Five, then the desktop and web databases are the same format. You can just copy/move the web tables to your desktop location and open.
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

    Comment


      #3
      Re: How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

      To expand on what Steve says....since they are the same format you can also create Hybrid Apps where the desktop app can directly see the data entered from the web side and vice versa. That is, there is only one set of data tables that both the web and desktop side can use. I am currently doing this on two applications and it works slick.

      Regards,

      Jeff

      Comment


        #4
        Re: How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

        BTW, welcome to Alpha and this board! It is great software!

        This board is one of the best sales features Alpha has over other products. Lots of good info here as well as folks willing to help when you get stuck.

        Comment


          #5
          Re: How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

          Originally posted by jkletrovets View Post
          To expand on what Steve says....since they are the same format you can also create Hybrid Apps where the desktop app can directly see the data entered from the web side and vice versa. That is, there is only one set of data tables that both the web and desktop side can use. I am currently doing this on two applications and it works slick.

          Regards,

          Jeff
          Thanks Jeff,
          Sorry for taking so long to reply. I wish to also thank you for your response.
          That leads to a couple of questions:
          1. Do you host your own web databases and are they on the same server as your desktop solution is hosted.
          2. Also it seems that you're saying the same tables are being accessed on both the desktop and the web?
          3. Finally where can I find the best resource on best practices for the web/desktop setup.

          Thank you,
          Richard Hyams

          Comment


            #6
            Re: How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

            1. Do you host your own web databases and are they on the same server as your desktop solution is hosted.
            2. Also it seems that you're saying the same tables are being accessed on both the desktop and the web?

            If you host it locally you can share the database between your web app, and your desktop app. This has been coined a "hybrid". Or you can host anywhere you can rent a VPS or dedicated server, or with an Alpha host such as www.zebrahost.net.

            3. Finally where can I find the best resource on best practices for the web/desktop setup.
            Check my website for starters, I have a bunch of articles and resouces listed for developers.
            Steve Wood
            See my profile on IADN

            Comment


              #7
              Re: How To Import Data From Web Application Into Desktop Application

              Hi Richard

              1. Do you host your own web databases and are they on the same server as your desktop solution is hosted.
              Yes, we are hosting the site so it has access to the network drive where the desktop data resides.

              2. Also it seems that you're saying the same tables are being accessed on both the desktop and the web?
              Yep, that is exactly what is happening.


              3. Finally where can I find the best resource on best practices for the web/desktop setup.
              Unfortunately, I can't offer a concise direction to point you. I guess I got there from just reading on this board and playing around. I did just find this on Alpha's site by putting Hybrid in the search box.

              http://www.alphasoftware.com/AlphaFi...ions_01_01.asp


              Regards,

              Jeff

              Comment

              Working...
              X