Mark Srebnik wrote:
2. Good Way to Edit Background Group Across Multiple Cards
Found myself editing February card and then realizing that this was
probably a mistake, as I'd need to make the same corrections to about
9-10 more cards...one for each month....
Seems to me know that it would make more sense to have design that
carries over month to month so that you don't have to change each
month individually if you have changes. However, maybe that's not
possible with this tutorial as each month has different days in it??
Right. Fields in background groups have a property called "sharedText"
which determines whether the text is the same on all cards or varies for
each card. For labels and such, you usually want them shared. For other
things (like the calendar dates) you don't. In this tutorial, you want
to share field text for things like the days of the week, but not for
the calendar days themselves or the name of the month. Regardless, the
field is being shared; the only difference is whether the text varies
card-to-card or not. This allows you to change things like the field
placement, size, color, font, etc. and the changes will appear on every
card that uses the shared group. Only the text will change on each card.
For this tutorial you just type in all the dates for every month, and
since the sharedtext of that field is false, Rev will keep track of
which card shows what dates. However, there are lots of scripts floating
around that will auto-calculate the dates that should appear in each
month. I think RR decided this would be too much for a beginner tutorial
so they left it out.
A more advanced tutorial would probably not do a calendar this way. One
method I've used is to have only a single card that auto-calculates and
enters the dates when the user changes months, and any user entries
(like appointments) are stored in a custom property and dynamically
loaded into the field on demand when the month is displayed. That's a
bit much for a basic beginner tutorial though.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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