Hi Jeff,
Once again your efforts have succeeded. With regards to the rounding up issue on the mileage, I knew I needed to create a scenario where I was able to get the data to a -1 where necessary but I never got close to the solution you came up with, I won’t lie! I now have a mileage and chains system that offers a level of precision that I’ve not seen on any other apps/websites that offer similar.
The 2nd part of your response pleased me (despite the issue still being there at the time of me reading your response) because it was nice to see that I had created templates/relations in the correct manner - a definite positive sign that and an indication of what I have learnt during your period of help for me. I spent a solid amount of time checking and double checking my data was correct and I still couldn’t see anything amiss. So, I decided to head down the Glide equivalent of ‘switch it off and on’ and simply deleted everything relating to the templates and relation I was looking to set up and when I re-entered the information, it worked perfectly. Not sure what causes it but it’s the 2nd time this process has fixed a problem for me.
I am probably in a position to get the prototype out to a few people to get some initial feedback but I also have a couple of things I have been looking at which will become a requirement going forward.
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My prototype revolves around one class of train but once things progress there will be multiple different classes which will all be set up in the same way - a ‘home’ screen with a button leading to the fleet detail. However, I would want a front screen which would list each of the classes and a click on any of the classes would then take you to the ‘home’ page for that particular class. I guess this can be done quite easily with buttons but I’m wondering if Inline Lists may work as I think it would be nice if I used the ‘details’ and ‘caption’ part of the inline list to show some data relating to the class before the user has clicked on it?
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This actually goes back to my opening post when I asked:
And you will be pleased to know this is the final question and relates to the “Amendments” button towards the bottom of the units page. This is basically a similar issue to that of Q3 - in this case, when I click on the ‘Amendments’ button I would only want to see amendments for that particular unit but at the moment it brings up amendments for all units - sorry to keep repeating this but is this possible? This one is not a major issue if it isn’t possible as you will see I have already implemented a backup option below the ‘Amendments’ button - I just thought too much on one screen would look a bit clustered so a button leading off to a new screen would tidy things up somewhat.
And your response was:
Unfortunately there isn’t a good way to use a button to get to a related sheet record. I would recommend using a relation and an inline list to drill down to a related ammendment. It’s not greate, but you can either use the regular list, or play with tiles or cards to get something that looks like a button.
As you will see in the app, I moved away from the button option for the ‘Amendments’ section and decided to keep it all on the same screen. At the moment, that doesn’t appear to be a major issue but as more amendments to each unit occurs I worry that section could make the screen extremely long and looking a bit cluttered. If you check out unit 350401, you will see that there are 2 amendments in this and how it extends the length of the information on the screen.
To give you an insight into the purpose of this section, it is basically to detail any major changes to the unit - usually a change of colour scheme or change of ownership. The switches are there for the user to activate if they have sighted, photographed or travelled on the unit prior to the amendment in question.
What I would basically like is for the same information that is there now to be available to the user, but on a separate screen. So staying with the example unit of 350401, I would like to scroll down to the bottom and have a button/inline list which takes me through to a screen which shows the relevant amendments for that unit only.
In my mind, I am imagining a need to join the columns relating to the amendments with the unit number (and maybe the user email for the switches as these would be user specific) before creating some sort of relation but I just can’t seem to get it to work (possibly because it is so late in the day haha) as I wouldn’t really want to be having to set up a new sheet in my spreadsheet to make it work as this just increases the row numbers.
There is a 3rd thing I have in my mind but as I have yet to even try this one, I shall refrain from requesting for help on this until I am sure that I cannot solve the problem myself. If you have any suggestions on the 2 points above, it would be appreciated as always.
Thanks