I'd like to create a "Twitter-like" chat for my company using SC8

Scriptcase 8 Discussion
#1

However, the feature “most missing” is the ability to have over/under fields and multiple field values in one cell. As far as I can tell, this is impossible in SC8. Am I correct? If so, I’ll give up now.

Example:

In Twitter, you look at the messages:

COLUMN 1: <— SC8 can do this

PHOTO is on the left in it’s own grid cell/column

COLUMN 2: <— This is not possible in SC8 (as far as I know)

Sender Name, Sender Address, Sent Time are all along the top edge of the message, each in it’s own grid cell
Directly below, same column: Message Text
Directly below, same column: Icon buttons to reply, retweet, like, and more

Is this possible in SC8 and I just am not seeing it?
Will this ability be coming in SC9?
I’ll make a suggestion in the Suggestion forum.

#2

You can use freeformat to do this.

//youtu.be/tukCY_EusPc

Sorry, in spanish, but I’m sure you get the point.

#3

Hi Giu, this is a part of SC8 that I’ve never used before. Thanks for pointing it out. One thing that I think is still missing is the ability to have custom buttons in each row. I need to have “Twitter-like” layout where, below each grid row, there is a “Reply”, “Retweet”, “More…” buttons. I don’t see how this can be done using the custom HTML template feature of SC8. Am I wrong?

#4

use html templates and ajax in aplication init set timeout to grab tweet on twitter

#5

Hi Everyone, I have watched the videos on using custom HTML templates with SC8. I have made a custom template, and configured SC8 to use it. I run my grid app, and what happens is, every record in my table loads into the first “page”. This means that my user sees a very long page, about 27 meters long, with the “View” button at the bottom. I have tried using the <!-- BEGIN bl2 --> and <!-- END bl2 --> tags as shown in one of the SC examples… to no avail. What I need is, the records should be shown on screen, paginated just like what SC8 does normally, with a short page length, so that the footer is shown on screen, and I need all the normal navigation buttons (next, prior, last, etc) at the bottom. I have these buttons configured to show, but, SC eliminates them if I use a custom HTML.

Remember I’m trying to re-create the message list in Twitter (many messages, in scrollable list, preferably “infinite” scroll, like Twitter), not make a single bank form for a single record. What am I doing wrong?

#6

Useful video, thanks.

I am surprised to see that you must use curly brackets in the HTML template. I thought these were reserved for fields from the table.
I would have expected square brackets for global variables! But these do not work here.

As a test, I tried to use curly brackets with the name of the field: example: {precio1}.
I did not define this in Field positioning (left it empty).
It worked OK!!