Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Build 292 - Updated Filter
The Filter tab in the Request Editor now supports dynamic filter controls. Try building a filter on Cars Make or Cars Date of Sale to see how it works.
There's still something I'm looking at in there with relation to tracking data items and resizing. Sometimes the currently highlighted filter duplicates itself in the filter below it but I'm chasing it so don't tell me about it just yet.
Both the Refresh and the full Install have been updated so check them out.
Finally, as we get closer to release, we're limiting the new features being added in. Why? Because I want to ship this thing and we want to put more work on these.
For example, I'd love to re-design the Relationship Editor to work more like the Relationship Finder but it's so easy to get caught up on redesign that you lose scope of what's really important - shipping!
For example, I'd love to re-design the Relationship Editor to work more like the Relationship Finder but it's so easy to get caught up on redesign that you lose scope of what's really important - shipping!
The changes will be focused on updating utilities under the Administrator menu that need a lot more work but here are the key new features in Foxfire! 8.0:
a) Distribution Builder
b) FFCONFIG Builder (although expect some re-design in 8.1)
c) Relationship Finder
d) Live Design / Request Editor
e) New Import/Export/Batch Builder process
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Sunday, December 21, 2003
Build 291 - Relationship Finder
This build is ONLY available by downloading the Beta Refresh.
A new Developer tool called the Relationship Finder has been added to the Relationship Editor.
This tool is similar to the one found in the Setup Wizard but is far more dynamic and hopefully, useful. You can drag and drop files on top of each other to create relationships or let the AutoJoin (working on a better name) find them for you. When using AutoJoin, you can specify what fields should be ignored or what type of key you use to identify the ID fields. We are still building support for other naming conventions.
Perhaps the cool part here is that if it can find a single key that links two tables, it uses it but if it can't, it will prompt you and you can choose the correct relationship. This should make setting up relationships between even "unknown" tables faster and easier than ever before!
To see it, select Relationship Editor in the System Admin menu and then click Find.
Now, if you are using the Cars file, this may not immediately appear useful so try selecting Upgrade from Previous Version under the Tools menu and specify your original Foxfire! 6.0 directory. Select the Preference set you want to move over and then your other joins should be available .
One thing to be aware of: When it shows you all of the potential joins, they are ALL assumed to be valid. Be sure to hit the Clear All unless you want to add them all in.
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