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SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Complete: How to go about planning my imports?

Author: jimrecht
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:34 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 2

Thank you John: your reply is super-helpful as usual!

General Support :: RE: Need a New Forum for Complete

Author: John Sindelar
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:02 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 1

I'm still on the fence about a new forum; but I hear you. As for the Quick Find, there is no way for a developer to add or remove that for you, sadly. If you don't see it, just tight-click on the tool bar and select "Customize Toolbar..."
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SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Speed up month to month

Author: kaostika
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:56 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 5

Yeah, the month to month only shows 5 records per day. I am not sure why they use it since there are 20 records per day. I think i need to ween them off that view or find out what they are doing first

Oreste

SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Speed up month to month

Author: John Sindelar
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:39 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 5

I'm not sure how you're using "pre-filter", but here is what happens on the month: the calendar finds all the records happening in that month, then does a constrain for those matching the calendar's filters, if any. Then it load these events into the $$vars that draw the calendar. As you move from month to month, the date range changes and it does this again. Thus you'll see speed changes as you navigate into less busy months.

If you're getting 9 seconds and don't have any un-indexed fields on your Source No 1 layout then you likely have too many records being displayed for the hardware / network you're using. The speed article I linked to in the past post contains strategies to deal with this, either filtering the calendar or setting the month to only show all-day events.
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SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Speed up month to month

Author: kaostika
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:35 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 5

I only have one source.

SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Speed up month to month

Author: kaostika
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:16 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 5

HI, it took 19 seconds to switch months. There are no index fields. There are about 3000 records it is looking thru. Does it prefilter before it goes to each month?

Oreste

SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Complete: How to go about planning my imports?

Author: John Sindelar
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:55 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 2

Hey Jim,

We have some notes about importing your contacts here: http://www.seedcode.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=SeedCodeComplete2.ImportingContacts

But since your solution is specific to what you've build, I don't think you'll find much in our docs about how to add your existing features, layouts etc to Complete. You just have a lot of work ahead of you.

I can give you some guidelines though that we use when moving big features from one solution to another. It's all about the order you do things. So let's say you have a layout or part of a layout you want to move from one file to another...

- Begin by adding the layout's table to the new file if it isn't there already. Most of your big tables will already be in Complete (Contacts, Invoices) but they'll have different fields.

- Then relate that tables to others on the graph and clean up and calcs that were commented out when you imported the table in (or pasted fields in)

- Then add any value lists the layout or its scripts may need. Same with custom functions.

- Now create a new blank layout for this layout, giving it the correct name and basing it on the right table.

- Paste or import any scripts the layout uses into the new file (everything you've done so far is to make sure that script find everything it needs when it arrives and does so without error).

- Finally you paste the layout contents into the new layout: again, those fields and buttons should find the fields and scripts they're looking for. The whole trick is to first create the objects subsequently imported objects will want to find when they arrive.

As you can tell, it is more of an art than a science and we do offer consulting if you'd like to know more.

Hope that helps,

John
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SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Speed up month to month

Author: John Sindelar
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:45 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 5

Hey Oreste,

10 seconds seems like a very long time and not at all what I'd expect.

You'll find a number of tips to speed things up here: http://www.seedcode.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=SeedCodeCalendar.Speed
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SeedCode Calendar :: RE: Calendar Complete Upgrade

Author: John Sindelar
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:32 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 1

It is $119 and you can find that link here: http://www.seedcode.com/cp-app/ste_cat/upgradetocomplete11
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SeedCode Calendar :: Calendar Complete Upgrade

Author: typeleven
Subject: Calendar Complete Upgrade
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:07 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 1

How much is it to upgrade from the 8.5 version of complete?

SeedCode Calendar :: Speed up month to month

Author: kaostika
Subject: Speed up month to month
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:00 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 5

Hi,

The calendar work fast except when it is on month view. If takes about 10 seconds to switch months. I think it is the color info. Anyway to speed this up?

Oreste

SeedCode Calendar :: RE: RGB Woes

Author: sws-solutions
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:14 am (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 1

The RGB function in FileMaker will combing the red / green / blue values to return an integer value for the colour, see here :
http://fmhelp.filemaker.com/fmphelp_10/en/html/func_ref3.33.91.html

You can also use a custom function to convert hex values to RGB such as :
http://www.briandunning.com/cf/115
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SeedCode Calendar :: RGB Woes

Author: lumberjacklane
Subject: RGB Woes
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:58 pm (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 1

I have been trying to make sense of the 8 digit RGB value in the Calendar, I can't seem to figure it out. I get the standard 6 digit hex format, but I am not sure how to find a color I like in Color Utility on a Mac, and translate that to an RGB value in SeedCode in the ColorPicker. Any suggestions?

SeedCode Calendar :: Complete: How to go about planning my imports?

Author: jimrecht
Subject: Complete: How to go about planning my imports?
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:22 pm (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 2

Hi John:

Not sure if this is the correct forum for my question (since it's specific to SeedCode Complete), but here goes:

As you know, I currently use the previous version SeedCode Complete (for FM 8.5+), in a rather extensively modified form.

Now I have two goals:

1) To build out my shiny new copy of Complete (for FM 11) so that its interface file corresponds (more-or-less) to my current solution's interface, and its data file corresponds to my current solution's data;

2) Then, to import my existing data.

I'm afraid I may have overlooked something in the documentation you've created to accompany "Complete for FM 11" -- but I can't find any information addressing these two specific issues.

Can you steer me in the right direction?

Yours,
Jim Recht

General Support :: Need a New Forum for Complete

Author: Bart
Subject: Need a New Forum for Complete
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:11 pm (GMT -9)
Topic Replies: 1

Hi, John -

We could use a new forum for Complete.

Also, a quickie:

Why aren't we seeing Quick Find in the Status Area?
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Bart