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Alpha Anywhere -More Enhancements -Range Searches in the UX Component



Innovation and enhancements are taking place all the time at Alpha.  Below you will find some recent enhancements that have been made in the last few days in response to user requests.

 

The Alpha Anywhere grid has always allowed 'range' searches. now the UX component  makes it just as easy.


 

The List control has a built-in action in Action Javascript to filter the List. An Ajax callback to the server is made and the query that populates the List is executed with a filter that is computed based on values in the search control on the UX. Now, you can easily perform 'range' searches, as shown in this video.NOTE: Another way to perform a 'range' search is to use a single search control, turn on the 'Allow QBF' option and then enter the search value as a range using the .. (two dots) synax. For example, to search for quantity between 10 and 20, you would enter 10..20 in the search control.
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Saving the Absolute Layout Container as a PDF in Alpha Anywhere


 



The Absolute Layout container in a UX allows you to place controls at absolute locations, typically using a bitmap image of a form as a background.You can use an action in Action Javascript to save the contents of the Absolute Layout container as PDF file and then download the PDF to the client, or call some Xbasic function to process the PDF file.This video shows how this is done using Action Javascript.
 

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Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.

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The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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