A few tips and tricks to make your coding life a tiny bit better.
In many cases, your application might have a child table, like this: Let’s say we want to hide the Company and Open columns from that child table. You can add a CSS rule to hide specific columns from the child table. In the generated hooks/footer-extras.php, add code similar to this:
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<style> #panel_child-table-lookup-field .child-table-field-to-hide { display: none; } </sttyle> |
In the above code, […]
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Let’s say you have a numeric field, maybe a price, a score or some other field that should contain numbers only. If you set the data type of the field in AppGini (or in your database) to be numeric (INT, DECIMAL, FLOAT … etc) that would allow only numbers to be stored in the database. […]
If you have a time field in your AppGini application, it displays a time picker in the detail view like this one: The timepicker includes seconds. If you wish to hide the seconds part, you could do so by editing the tablename_dv hook. Open the generated hooks/tablename_dv.php file in a text editor (where tablename is […]
An AppGini customer told me recently that he has a table containing only one field, a barcode field, that he uses a barcode scanner to populate. He has thousands of items to enter, and wanted to know if there is someway to expedite his workflow, maybe by avoiding to click ‘Save as copy’ everytime he […]
In the detail view, if you have some ajax request running in the background that should update your detail view form (or if you do this in the tablename_dv hook), you might already know that you can change the data of a normal text field using this JavaScript code:
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$j('#fieldname').val('new value'); |
But if your field is […]