Daylite Central has a couple of useful examples of HUD although there are some bugs in them. Looking at the code I am curious why no one is using the loop construct. The Extra Fields HUD in particular could really use it...

Here is a snippet of it re-written to use the loop construct:

<$loop value 1 12 1 loop1$>
	<$identify extraFieldLabel=model.extraFieldsNames.extra<$value$>$>
	<$identify extraFieldDefaultLabel=Extra Field <$value$>$>
	<$identify extraFieldValue=model.extra<$value$>$>
	<$if extraFieldLabel != extraFieldDefaultLabel$> 
	<tr>
		<td>
			<span class="dl_business_normal">
				<a href="daylite://ShowObject/? \
Entity=<$model.entity.name$>&ID=<$model.primaryKeyValue$>" \
title="Edit <$extraFieldLabel$>"><img src="edit.tif" \
align="bottom" class="icon" /></a>
				  <$field extraFieldLabel$>
			</span>
		</td>
		<td>
			<span class="dl_business_normal">
				<strong><$model.extra<$value$>$></strong>
			</span>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<$endif$>
<$endloop loop1$>

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Andrew Migliore,

Andrew,

I, for one, have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Could you give a brief explanation of the value of a loop construct, i.e., what it does

Just programming talk. A more compact and efficient way to write HUDs. This is probably not the best forum for this info.

So here is a link to the rewritten Extra Fields HUD with icons and auto filtering. Click on the icon representing the date or field and it opens the object to edit.

Custom FIelds HUD

Thanks, Andrew. Good stuff.

Thanks Andrew, very nice piece of code that performs very well.

Andrew: The HUD doesn't seem to work in 3.7.

quote:

Originally posted by Atticus:
Andrew: The HUD doesn't seem to work in 3.7.

I am using 3.7 Build 1532 and it appears to work fine. Did you click on the "plus" sign in the upper right HUD area to activate the widget?

I'm using a demo version of 3.7 and have had problems with it crashing. We're trying to figure it out. Right now, the program seems to be working but the HUD doesn't work. I might have data in one extra field and a date in an extra date field. The date will show but not the text in one contact. With similar information in a separate contact, nothing shows. Not sure what to do. Maybe the database is corrupt. If there's a way to delete the database, maybe I can start over, reinstall DL and see what happens.

Here's what it looks like:

Atticus,

I'm on 3.7 and the HUD is working for me. Did you make sure to put HUD in the name of the note(s). If you don't, the HUD won't pull the note(s) up.

JRP: No, the Notes HUD works fine. I was trying to show how the Custom Fields HUD wasn't working. There's nothing in the Custom Fields box although there are a number of entries in the Extra Fields on the left side of the pic.

Sorry, thanks for the clarification.

Atticus,

I found that if you leave the custom field's name as the default, then nothing will be shown. Try to edit the names of each custom field that you need to use to some other value and see what happens.

Howard:

Bingo! That explains why I had a date showing in exactly one field; the field name had been changed.

Thanks so much!

Atticus,

NP, MP, GTH. TTYS.