Posts by DecSoft

Hello Samuel,

Please do not apologize, it's my fault to not specify in some way than this paths are optionals. In fact this is not clear in the help file nor the window dialog, so the appear as required when it's not. I will try to solve this Samuel.

Hello Samuel,

Please, le me to try to reply you starting by some questions:

1º Do you know the refered paths are completely optionals (Look here) and in fact we no need specify except in certain "rare" scenario?

2º So,... are you try without using such options at all? For example, personally I no need to specify the paths and therefore just leave blank such options.

Certainly I am not quite sure (right now) if the options are well placed in the app itself or may be placed in the program options. A vote for the first one can be than doing that such configuration stay into the app project file, so probably are more easy to keep "as is".

Hello,

There is no problem to use absolute URLs, in fact this is the recommended way, since we can't reproduce local files in platforms like Android. If you have problems using absolute URLs, try to start the URLs by the "http://www." instead "www.".

Hello,

Hi,
I think the other Report samples with images are not connected to database mysql.

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Joseph Caristena

In fact this doesn't matter. The JSON source is not important here. However, now I think you wanted to show an image retrieved from the server. Then what you must to do is to use the image's URL in an Image control or an HTML control. Or what I am missing here?

Hello Joseph,

Are you take a look at all the "Report*" app samples? Some of them include images, links (buttons) and more in the Report control. Please take a look and tell me if you have any further question.

Hello Joseph,

If you plain to use text files which contains App Builder variables consider the "ParseVariables" action instead the "LoadVariables" action. The first one wanted an string (instead of a file path) who can be provided by an HTTP call response from our server. That is, instead of download a file, perform an HTTP call to the server and use their response with the "ParseVariables" action.

If you want to play with JSON, in fact we no need to do nothing except the HTTP call. Then in the server response (already put in the HttpClient control Response variable) we have the JSON object ready to be used. Take a look at the "JSON*" includes samples and in particular to the "JSON3" app sample.

Hello Joseph,

One possible way to do what you wanted is to using the below CSS code, for example, in the "Inline CSS" app's option:

Note that doing that you no need to change the image width nor height.

Hello Joseph,

Anyway, 8000 records are too much... maybe it's not a problem and probably works, but maybe you can consider to filter such amount of data in some way. What way? I don't know... maybe by selecting a city firstly? Anyway, this is just an idea Joseph. Maybe all the records can be good too here.

Hello Joseph,

The inputs' "datalist" are quite interesting, but, what about to use the Typeahead control already included in App Builder? Are you take a look at this control in the Typeahead app sample?

Another possible approach is to use the Select control, who allow us to choose one element from the list. This control is useful also in mobiles, since the OS show us a cute list of elements to choose.

Thanks for your kindly words Joseph! :)

Hello Mike,

You're welcome. Hope you catch the app background issue. Please contact me by email or using the website contact form in order to talk about your project and a possible way to help you.

Hello,

Not exactly. To hide an element from a Report control we must "drop" it from the Report JSON source. That's the way. Maybe we can use an HTML control here instead of a Report control. But in both cases we are not talking about "Images.Image" anymore Mike.

If we decide to use a Report control then we have "items" and "item's properties" (what we want to put in a Report item, anything a JSON allow us) and if we use an HTML Control we are talking (probably) about HTML IMG elements "IDs" and "SRC" attributes.

Hello Mike,

Are you take a look at the Report control? App Builder includes various "Report*" samples, which can be give us an idea of this control power...

Hello,

Please take care about the match case. "[Image1.image]" is undefined because in fact we must to use "[Image1.Image]". Note the first upper cased "I" for the "Image".

Hello,

Please, Mike, take a look at my above post:

But now we enter in another point. Are the images we are talking about in a remote server? If so, we can use the "[ImageName.Image]" variable to be saved into the Clipboard, since that variable store the image URL.

Are the images we are talking about included by the application when compile it? Then I am not completely sure if the "[ImageName.Image]" can help us "as is". Of course such variable contains an URL, however, I am not sure what kind of URL is this (in Android, for example) and if they can be simply copied and used in another context.