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Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 20 Aug 08 8:07 AM
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| Is there a chart or list available that shows what form, view, group, etc that is associated with each visual element in the client? For example, showing what populates the opportunity product grid, association option, etc. |
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 21 Aug 08 8:03 AM
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No such document.. never has been one.
You have to do what we all have been doing for years (about 10 for me  - reverse engineer things yourself. Just looking at the property "sheet" for the various object (Forms/Controls, etc) helps.
In the case of Opportunity product.. well.. that's a bit different since it's "code driven" and not "bound". In fact, just about all of the "insert whatever (account/lead/etc..) are not bound and are code driven. |
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 21 Aug 08 8:04 AM
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No such document.. never has been one.
You have to do what we all have been doing for years (about 10 for me - reverse engineer things yourself. Just looking at the property "sheet" for the various object (Forms/Controls, etc) helps.
In the case of Opportunity product.. well.. that's a bit different since it's "code driven" and not "bound". In fact, just about all of the "insert whatever (account/lead/etc..) are not bound and are code driven. |
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 21 Aug 08 8:50 AM
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Bob: You're dating yourself!
Once you become more familiar with the application, you will basically know the origin of almost all of the elements. And the same for the organization of the various views or sub-schemas used by each of the application's features. Aside from that, Bob is right.
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 21 Aug 08 9:23 AM
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Originally posted by Robert Levine
Bob: You're dating yourself!
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It's called "experience"
..now I could go back and pull up things like:
a - I know how to program a DEC pdp-8 (8, 8I, etc) in assembler/machine level code...
b - do you know how to write code in ATLAS?
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 21 Aug 08 9:52 AM
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Ha, I too worked on a PDP, only we used C. Do you remember the Prime 750? Its OS was written in FORTRAN. And then there's also the IBM-360 (40 & 165). But no, never wrote in ATLAS.
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 21 Aug 08 10:12 AM
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Ah yes.. "c" THE "hard-core" dev language!
Worked for Prime for a short while.. also DG (lots of Pascal).
Did a bit of ADA too.. UGH!
Also IBM 1800 ... |
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 21 Aug 08 10:22 AM
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Yep, remember the "C" book by K & R. That's all they gave us. And later on PC's, I used the Latice "C" Compiler. What a gem! On the 360's, I used BAL (Assembler) until they forced COBOL on us. Hated COBOL as much as punch cards. My favorite PC-DOS level language was Q-PRO-4 which translated into "C". That was a good concept and lasted until VB came along.
You got me on the 1800.
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 22 Aug 08 12:28 AM
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I have the first and 2nd edition of K&R right here on my "languages" bookshelf. Alongside a copy of AT&T Bell Labs C book (yellow one) by Bolsky.
Also have Bell Labs original Unix manual with teh complete manual set for 4.3 bsd.
We used RM Cobol on Unix... pretty slick running mainframe stuff on a 32 cpu Sequent system!
The 1800 was used in the process control industry (was a process engineer for quite a while). Came before the system 32/36 series. |
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 22 Aug 08 2:55 PM
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I remember the Sequent system, but you've got me on the 1800. Although I once took a class in which we used an IBM 1600 machine, but it was old at that point (never used it commerically). And I too have some old Unix manuals but I'll have to check the version number - doubt they go back that far.
'Good to know we have some real vets working with SalesLogix,
Bob
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Re: Dumb Layout Question
Posted: 22 Aug 08 4:09 PM
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Originally posted by Matthew
Is there a chart or list available that shows what form, view, group, etc that is associated with each visual element in the client? For example, showing what populates the opportunity product grid, association option, etc. |
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Hi Matthew,
I'm not going to tell you that you have to do this for 10 years or anything to understand SLX. That's what this site is for. As you get specific questions about stuff, post them here. We are all here to help you get there faster.
As was already mentioned, documentation for SLX is something that is sparse to say the least.
-Ryan |
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