Shared Datagrid

[Stewart Lynch]

Is it possible to have he same datagrid and content shared among many cards as a shared background control? If so, any suggestions would be appreciated

[dunbarx]

Hmmm.

Possibly tricky. DG's are already so grouped it is hard to even understand them. But one can set the backGroundBehavior of a DG to "true" by hand, and this will permit it to be shared among cards. The tricky part is to also set the sharedText of all those fields.

So try this. Make a new stack. Put a DG on the card, and set its backGroundBehavior to "true". Put something into the contents of the DG. In the stack script:

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on opencard
   set the dgText of group "datagrid 1" of this cd to the dgText of group "datagrid 1" of cd 1
end opencard

Now make a few new cards. You will have to tweak this, setting the column names in a similar manner, and you may discover a few more items that have to be addressed.

Craig Newman