Come to WOWODC. David and I will be doing a D2W lab. It will be a perfect opportunity to ask questions about D2W flow and such :-)
Ramsey On Mar 29, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Tim Worman wrote: > I love reading stuff like this - really useful. Every time I try to use D2W I > get a certain distance into it and then feel as as if I'd be faster > developing a standard WO app than navigating a whole new manner of thinking > (and composing rules). Figuring out how to make a D2W app flexible has been > hard for me to wrap my head around. > > Thanks for the great ideas! > > Tim > > On Mar 29, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Ramsey Gurley <rgur...@smarthealth.com> wrote: > >> On Mar 29, 2012, at 4:27 PM, David Holt wrote: >> >>> >>> On 2012-03-29, at 4:23 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote: >>> >>>> More than one way to skin a cat here. I'd probably just set up a wizard. >>>> >>>> step 1, choose a practice with an ERD2WEditToOneRelationship that filters >>>> the list to only practices with billables that have no invoice. >>>> step 2, choose billables form a filtered list for that practice with an >>>> ERD2WEditToManyRelationship component. >>> >>> Can you use information entered in Step one to inform step two? >> >> Sure. Just set the restrictedChoiceKey to resolve to a method on the EO. >> Something like object.billablesForCurrentPracticeWithoutInvoice. Then use >> the practice set in step one to filter the list for step 2. >> >>> >>>> step 3, edit invoice date >>>> validate and save accordingly >>>> >>>> Ramsey >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Paul Hoadley wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Ramsey, >>>>> >>>>> On 30/03/2012, at 2:21 AM, Ramsey Gurley wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:31 AM, Paul Hoadley wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Anyway, the subject above is probably a misnomer: I'm not trying to >>>>>>> create particularly complex objects, but I am trying to do something >>>>>>> outside CRUD, which is pretty much all I've ever done with D2W before. >>>>>>> In the model, a Billable object has an optional to-one relationship to >>>>>>> Invoice. When I create a Billable, it initially has no related >>>>>>> Invoice. Later I will create an Invoice for a client, and collect >>>>>>> together some set of Billables, and the relationship is created at that >>>>>>> time. And that's the bit I need a pattern for: Invoice creation. >>>>>>> Billable also has a mandatory relationship to Practice (i.e., a >>>>>>> client), and a startTime timestamp. When I go to create an Invoice, >>>>>>> I'd give the Invoice a date and select a Practice, and then I want to >>>>>>> add, say, all of the Billables that (a) belong to no other Invoice, (b) >>>>>>> point to the same Practice, and (c) have a startTime that falls before >>>>>>> the new Invoice.date. >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, you can just set the practice, the invoice date, and then save >>>>>> changes. In Invoice.willInsert() fetch the billables and add them to the >>>>>> relationship just before the save takes place. :-) Or is that too >>>>>> automatic? >>>>> >>>>> It's more automatic than I was thinking, but it sounds alright. Say if I >>>>> wanted to review the list of Billables before saving, though, what would >>>>> you do then? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Paul Hoadley >>>>> http://logicsquad.net/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>>>> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >>>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/rgurley%40smarthealth.com >>>>> >>>>> This email sent to rgur...@smarthealth.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>>> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/programmingosx%40mac.com >>>> >>>> This email sent to programming...@mac.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/lists%40thetimmy.com >> >> This email sent to li...@thetimmy.com > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
