In some cases I need my program to perform the automatic keys apply from the program itself. I dont want a user to give or press any keys. It should be automatic when it reaches some conditions. I am using below query which requires input from the user. Please help to modify.
/*some conditions here..now its not required user input*/
case keyfunction(lastkey):
when {&KEY-END} then
undo RPT-SETTING-LOOP, next SOURCE-DB-LOOP.
when {&KEY-GO} or when {&KEY-RETURN} then
leave RPT-SETTING-LOOP.
end case.
Instead of using LASTKEY directly use a variable and conditionally set the variable as needed to act accordingly:
define variable notLastkey as integer no-undo.
/*some conditions here..now its not required user input*/
if theUserTypedSomethingBranch = yes then
notLastKey = lastkey.
else
notLastKey = whateverYouDesire.
case notLastkey:
when {&KEY-END} then
undo RPT-SETTING-LOOP, next SOURCE-DB-LOOP.
when {&KEY-GO} or when {&KEY-RETURN} then
leave RPT-SETTING-LOOP.
end case.
Related
I'm building a very simple JavaScript-based Firebase app that increments a key's value by 1 whenever my webpage is loaded. I don't want any authentication friction, so want to use either an open database, or one restricted to anonymous authentications. So, for example's sake:
$(document).ready(function() {
// after config and initialize...
var fb = firebase.database();
var fbCount = fb.ref("count");
fbCount.transaction(function(current) {
return current + 1;
});
});
In either case, as I understand it, there is nothing to stop anyone who can access the page from copying my code (including my initialization config) and using it on their own server--with adjustments--to not only increment the value (fbCount above), but to change the code in any other way they like (e.g. letting them increment the value by 100, 1000, or changing it to something else entirely).
My further understanding is that the best way to deal with this potential is through security rules. So what I'm trying to figure out is whether there's a way, through the security rules, to limit any write to only an increment by 1 of the current value?
If not, is there another method I should be investigating?
You'll want to make use of predefined variables. Your validation rule will look something like this (at the location of the field you want to protect):
".validate": "newData.val() == data.val() + 1"
New appmaker user here.
I'm trying to port the work permits approval "app" I made with G Suite form+spreadsheet+GAS; users should enter the day, the start and end time of the permit.
I can see from the Forum Sample that the Date field type is a DateTime field type, so I can use it in my model.
The problem is I cannot find the time picker in the widgets, and the date box has no option to also enter the time.
Am I missing something?
Time Pickers for App Maker
I read your question and thought I'd try to role one of my own and this is what I came up with. I put all of the buttons on a pageFragment and call it with app.showDialog(app.pageFragments.timePicker2);
I only use clientside script.
function updateOutput(){
var h=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.hour||'00';
var m=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.minute||'00';
var s=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.second||'00';
var t=h + ':' + m + ':' + s;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.descendants.timeLBL.text=t;
return t;
}
function updateHour(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.hour=v;
updateOutput();
}
function updateMinute(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.minute=v;
updateOutput();
}
function updateSecond(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.properties.second=v;
updateOutput();
}
Here's what my time picker looks like:
Yes. Adding all of the buttons is a nuisance but there are a few features about AppMaker that make it more tolerable.
First you can assign the TimePicker form properties which I use as global properties. I had three hour,minute and second.
Then after you add all of the hour buttons you can grab all of them at one time by clicking each one while holding down control on a windows machine and click on the onClick event and pick custom action and type this in updateHour(widget.text); the code completion won't give you text as an option but type it any way.
I just figured out how to grab the buttons all a one time by pushing shift and selecting with the mouse
Do the same thing with the minute and second buttons using updateMinute(widget.text) and updateSecond(widget.text); This saves you a lot of time typing all of the functions into each widget control panel. Also you don't have to bother giving all of the buttons special names like I did.
But you might like to format them with the following css.
And again you can grab all of the buttons at one time and change the following setting:
That way you can style all of the buttons at one time.
My save button just copies the final string into a label on the main panel.
app.pages.Testing.descendants.timeLBL2.text=app.pageFragments.TimePicker2.descendants.timeLBL.text;
app.closeDialog();
You will probably want to do something more elegant.
Here's a demo: in preview mode. Sorry about the 24 hour clock. I always use this for my own stuff because it's so much easier and I like it. You'll probably want AM & PM. I'll probably go back and do that too.
For an AM/PM Picker I used these functions:
function updateOutputAP(){
var h=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.hour||'00';
var m=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.minute||'00';
var s=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.second||'00';
var ap=app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.ap||' ';
var t=h + ':' + m + ':' + s + ' ' + ap;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.descendants.timeLBL.text=t;
return t;
}
function updateHourPM(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.hour=v;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.ap='PM';
updateOutputAP();
}
function updateHourAM(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.hour=v;
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.ap='AM';
updateOutputAP();
}
function updateMinuteAP(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.minute=v;
updateOutputAP();
}
function updateSecondAP(v){
app.pageFragments.TimePicker3.properties.second=v;
updateOutputAP();
}
And this is what my picker looks like:
Now that I know how to pick the components easily with the mouse it was a break to make this change.
Three AppMaker Time Pickers:
At this time App Maker doesn't provide out of the box Time or Date/Time picker widgets, it means that you need to implement one by yourself. There are at least two ways to accomplish this task:
App Maker way
Wait and hope when App Maker will introduce Time or Date/Time picker widget or use existing App Maker widgets to emulate Time Picker. Calendar Sample can be a good starting point:
Hack into DOM/JS
If you have no concerns about cross-browser compatibility and you are OK to get you hands dirty with DOM manipulation by javascript, creating events listeners and other cool stuff, then you can play with HTML widget and native date/time or time input, or even some third party library.
One simple option would be to simply use a textbox and set the validation in the model field.
You can update your Date object on save or just use as is depending on your application. You get the benefit of auto validation errors in the UI to guide your user and it takes only seconds to set up.
Regex:
\b((1[0-2]|0?[1-9]):([0-5][0-9]) ([AaPp][Mm]))
So I've built a Telegram bot, which can receive the following commands:
/list
/info 123
This works great, as I can catch /info and pass the additional arguments as ints. But, sadly, the Telegram clients don't see /info 123 as a complete command, but just the /info part. Is there a way to make it recognize the entirety of the command as the command?
I've tried Markdown-ing it: [/info 123](/info 123), but no joy. Is this possible?
I've reached out to #BotSupport with the same question, and he/they/it responded swiftly with the following answer:
Hi, at the moment it is not possible to highlight parameters of a command. I any case, you may can find a workaround if you use correct custom keyboards ;)
— #BotSupport
Custom keyboards may be an option for someone, but not for me. The solution I've gone for is to give the command as /info123. As the bot receives all / commands, I check if the received command starts with info, and if so, I remove the info part. I convert the remaining string/int to arguments, and pass that along to the relevant command.
If you mean to pass the 123 as an argument for your command info and if you happen to use the python-telegram-bot, then here's how you do it:
dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('hello', SayHello, pass_args=True))
According to the documentation: pass_args Determines whether the handler should be passed the arguments passed to the command as a keyword argument called args. It will contain a list of strings, which is the text following the command split on single or consecutive whitespace characters. Default is False.
you can use RegexHandler() to do this.
Here is an example
def info(bot, update):
id = update.message.text.replace('/info_', '')
update.message.reply_text(id, parse_mode='Markdown')
def main():
updater = Updater(TOKEN)
updater.dispatcher.add_handler(RegexHandler('^(/info_[\d]+)$', info))
updater.start_polling()
Usage
The command /info_120 will return 120
and /info_007 will return 007
UPDATE
for newer versions, you may use this method instead!
MessageHandler(filters.Regex(r'^(/info_[\d]+)$'), info)
To get the argument of command you don't even need to use pass_args as said Moein you can simply get it from context.args look at Github page. So you can pass as many arguments as you want and you will get a list of arguments! Here is an example from Github.
def start_callback(update, context):
user_says = " ".join(context.args)
update.message.reply_text("You said: " + user_says)
...
dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", start_callback))
ForceReply
Upon receiving a message with this object, Telegram clients will display a reply interface to the user (act as if the user has selected the bot's message and tapped 'Reply'). This can be extremely useful if you want to create user-friendly step-by-step interfaces without having to sacrifice privacy mode.
a simple shot
In this case, a user should send a valid number with /audio command (e.g. /audio 3, if they forgot it, we can inform and force them to do so.
source:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#forcereply
This is a fairly rudimentary way of creating kwargs from user input.
Unfortunately, it does require the user to be aware of the fields that can be used as parameters, but if you can provide informative response when the user doesnt provide any detectable kwarg style messages then you could probably make a better experience.
As I say, extremely rudimentary idea, and would probably be achieved faster with the regex filters available. And this would be much more reliable when checking input from the user of the "pesky" variety.
The script relies on || delimiter preceeding the command and as is shown will trim any extra characters like new lines and spaces
You can remove the extra check for commit as this is provided in order to tell the bot that you want to save your input to the database explicitly.
def parse_kwargs(update):
commit = False
kwargs = {}
if update.message:
for args in update.message.text.split('||')[1:]:
for kw_pair in args.split(','):
key, value = kw_pair.split('=')
if key.strip() != 'commit':
kwargs[key.strip()] = value.strip()
elif key.strip() == 'commit' and value.strip().lower() == 'true':
commit = True
return kwargs, commit
I need to fetch from BaaS data store all records that doesn't match condition
I use query string like:
https://api.usergrid.com/<org>/<app>/<collection>?ql=location within 10 of 30.494697,50.463509 and Partnership eq 'Reject'
that works right (i don't url encode string after ql).
But any attempt to put "not" in this query cause "The query cannot be parsed".
Also i try to use <>, !=, NE, and some variation of "not"
How to configure query to fetch all records in the range but Partnership NOT Equal 'Reject' ?
Not operations are supported, but are not performant because it requires a full scan. When coupled with a geolocation call, it could be quite slow. We are working on improving this in the Usergrid core.
Having said that, in general, it is much better to inverse the call if possible. For example, instead of adding the property when the case is true, always write the property to every new entity (even when false), then edit the property when the case is true.
Instead of doing this:
POST
{
'name':'fred'
}
PUT
{
'name':'fred'
'had_cactus_cooler':true
}
Do this:
POST
{
'name':'fred'
'had_cactus_cooler':'no'
}
PUT
{
'name':'fred'
'had_cactus_cooler':'yes'
}
In general, try to put your data in the way you want to get it out. Since you know upfront that you want to query on whether this property exists, simply add it, but with a negative value. The update it when the condition becomes true.
You should be able to use this syntax:
https://api.usergrid.com/<org>/<app>/<collection>?ql=location within 10 of 30.494697,50.463509 and not Partnership eq 'Reject'
Notice that the not operator comes before the expression (as indicated in the docs).
I am designing an infopath (Change Request) form:
1)How can i add a text box that automaticaly increments to the next number when a new form is created (adding a new Change Request form to the form library).
2)How do i retrieve information from an existing form to the new form.
NOTE: The field is not inside a repeating table. I need to generate the next Change Request number on each new Change Request form.
TIA!
There is no build-in way to do this, but there are several ways to achieve what you want (Database query or SPList query). But this kind of request somehow smells like a workaround for an other problem.
Common cases for increasing numbers are:
unique IDs
count the Requests
make referable by external list (same as ID)
make IDs guessable (time stamps are not)
If you need an ID: In most cases you are not forced to use integer IDs. Simply use the form title as a natural ID. (e.g. customer + timestamp)
If you need guessable IDs, you need them because an external system wants to access or refer to the request. In that case try to change the pull-direction into a push-direction (e.g. by using workflows) or let your other system provide a "getID" function that can be called by your form to obtain a known ID (no guessing needed).
Anyway - for me, it looks like you want to achieve this to solve some other problem. Maybe there are different solutions for that problem too?
You could enter a token in your text-titles on the form where you want autonumbering, such as #num#, and then use javascript or jquery to find those tokens and replace them with incremented numbers.
The drawback to this is that if you exported the list to excel, the tokens would not get translated to numbers. But it is a good solution for on-screen rendering.
Use Firebug to figure out the class of the container housing your autonumber tags.
Maybe you could do something like this:
function TokenReplacement(){
var ClassName = 'ms-formlabel';
var elements = new Array();
var elements = document.getElementsByTagName('td');
var numerator=0;
//Now do find and replace on everything else
for(var e=0;e<elements.length;e++){
thiselement = elements[e];
if(thiselement.className == ClassName){
//autonumber the questions by replacing the #num# token
if(thiselement.innerHTML.search('#num#') > -1){
numerator++
var replacenum = "<b>" + numerator + ". </b>";
thiselement.innerHTML = elements[e].innerHTML.replace('#num#',replacenum);
}
}
}
}