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richmond62 wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:18 am

I am not sure why tutorials seem to miss what people will use their products for.

Because of a lot of blue-sky thinking.

"Blue sky thinking refers to brainstorming with no limits.
With this approach to idea generation, ideas don't need to be grounded in reality. ...
Eventually, through this process, the goal is to stumble on some thoroughly feasible and innovative ideas."

All very jolly in theory, but NOT when you have some sort of deadline looming.

richmond62 wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:50 pm "Baby" Richmond here.

Let's start by making a 2 card stack with some buttons:
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at the moment ONLY the NEW MEETING button contains some code:

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on mouseUp
   go to card "NEWMEET"
end mouseUp

and the second card of the stack is called "NEWMEET".

xAction wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:27 am Oh there's a whole stack there! I thought it was just a picture and ran with the first thing I'd improve: the UI!
Less labels, more user space

xAction wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 1:53 pm I'm not clear about your big old table field, is that something the user is actually going to look at?
If it's just something for keeping all your data, just a big comma seperated (CSV) list of text store in the stack custom properties will do the job.
using the previous cards full of fields example:

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on storeContactsAsCSV
put "Name,Company,Phone,Email,Meeting Date, Meeting Time, Location, Topic" into tFields
put the number of cards of this stack into N

repeat with i = 2 to n --// 1 is the main screen

repeat for each item F in tFields
put line 1 to -1 of field F of card i  into tFieldData
replace cr with "^^" in tFielddata --// need to keep it all on one line
 put tFielddata  & comma after tDataLine
end repeat

put cr & char 1 to -2 of tDataLine after allData   --//dont want trailing comma
end Repeat

--// got al the data? Store it in a custom property
set the ContactDatabase of stack (The mainStack of this stack) to allData

put "file:" & specialFolderPath("Documents") & "/ContactaDatabase.txt" into tFilepath
put allData into URL tFilepath --//  a back up text file
end storeContactsAsCSV

Or is this for comparing when a schedule is available?

dalkin wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:00 am You might also take a look at this: https://livecode.com/extensions/calendar/1-0-0/

Bob DaBuilder, Bulds'R'Us, 555-555-5555, bob@builds.com, Meet to build my house, drink beers.
Jean Gray, X-men, 555-555-5555, jean@mutants.org, Fight Magneto
Kal El, Justice League, 555-555-555,ckent@dailyplanet.net, Party at FoS

put CSVData into TableFieldData  --// keep original data comma delimited
replace comma with tab in TableFieldData
put TableFieldData into field "myTableField"

set itemDel to tab
put item 4 of line 2 of field "myTableField" 

put "Name,Company,Phone,Email,Meeting Date, Meeting Time, Location, Topic" into tCells
put itemOffset("Email",tCells) into nItem
put lineOffset("Jean Gray",TableFieldData ) into nLine
if nItem is not 0 and nLine is not 0 then put item nItem of line nLine of TableFieldData  into tEmail

put "Name,Company,Phone,Email,Meeting Date, Meeting Time, Location, Topic" into tCells
put itemOffset("Topic",tCells) into nItem
put lineOffset("Bob DaBuilder",TableFieldData ) into nLine
if nItem is not 0 and nLine is not 0 then put item nItem to -1  of line nLine of TableFieldData  into tTopic