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nicoloose
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by nicoloose » Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:18 pm
I am a bit out of my depth at this point and these questions appear stupid to me now that I am writing them but I have spent so long looking for answers that I've hit a plateau. I have built my first mobile app which is running successfully on my ios device but:
- I would like to extend the functionality to give users the ability to give feedback on our products and services. Can someone explain in brief where I need to start learning how to do this? Filling in and submitting a form, maybe via email?
- I also want to create a guided tour of using our products and this may change from time to time. My first guess would be to have this content on a website and livecode retrieve that information and display it in a browser? If this is the case, I have read that livecode has a WP API and I could do it this way. Problem is, all my sites are currently WIX sites. I can pull up my wix site in a browser in LC but it's pretty unsightly.
Thanks in advance
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nicoloose on Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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ValiantCuriosity
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by ValiantCuriosity » Thu Apr 04, 2019 11:45 pm
I'm probably not answering what you would like to do, but would this lesson help?
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http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/12351-how-do-i-send-an-email-from-my-mobile-device
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by Klaus » Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:35 am
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nicoloose
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by nicoloose » Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:42 am
Yes I did see that lesson. The app gathers data and then the default email app on the user's device opens up with all the information and that's how they send the data.
I think I am going to need a proper content management system for the ideas I am having now. Any recommendations?
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nicoloose
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by nicoloose » Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:05 pm
Is the solution to grab a file from the cloud and display its contents in a scrolling field or group? How does one retain the formatting?
I have been through a lesson on how to create a scrolling group but this doesn't quite fit my requirement as the content is static. It would be better if the app grabs that content and displays it. Without getting too technical, as this is a free app, I want to do it as quickly and less expensively as possible.
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by jacque » Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:43 pm
If the content is already on your web site then you can just drag a browser widget to the stack and set its URL to the page on the site. That would be the simplest answer.
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nicoloose
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by nicoloose » Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:53 pm
Thank Jacque,
I did think of this but to be honest, displaying my entire webpage in a browser window on an app isn't the result I want.
I have decided to go for a data driven solution. For instance, I have various guides that the users may need to refer to. I may add and delete guides from time to time so the data needs to be hosted.
I will mark this thread as closed and continue with the other thread I started on resizing datagrid.
Best
Nic