Mar 20th, 2009, 11:20 AM
Heya,
Thanks for the clarification! Interesting case... It seems like what would be ideal would be if the Filters feature could be more dynamic; e.g. you could feed a variable into the filter itself, which would (or could) be different for each user, depending on their values. Hmm... neat!
So, for example, a dynamic filter would be defined something like this:
Field: FIELD A
Operator: Equals
Value: {$client_id}
The "{$client_id}" string would be converted to the appropriate value for each client, which would then automatically limit the results based on the client's own ID. Assuming that the client ID was included in the original form submission, you'd only need to define a single View for all clients which would, well, kick ass.
My only reluctance to implement something like this is that it seems so very custom and would really only help 0.1% of Form Tools users... on that note, can you think of any other cases an approach like this would help? I like the idea, I'd just like to think of some more uses for it & I'm drawing a blank.
- Ben
Thanks for the clarification! Interesting case... It seems like what would be ideal would be if the Filters feature could be more dynamic; e.g. you could feed a variable into the filter itself, which would (or could) be different for each user, depending on their values. Hmm... neat!
So, for example, a dynamic filter would be defined something like this:
Field: FIELD A
Operator: Equals
Value: {$client_id}
The "{$client_id}" string would be converted to the appropriate value for each client, which would then automatically limit the results based on the client's own ID. Assuming that the client ID was included in the original form submission, you'd only need to define a single View for all clients which would, well, kick ass.
My only reluctance to implement something like this is that it seems so very custom and would really only help 0.1% of Form Tools users... on that note, can you think of any other cases an approach like this would help? I like the idea, I'd just like to think of some more uses for it & I'm drawing a blank.
- Ben