Hi everyone,
I've been struggling all day trying to modify the Volunteer custom tab that I downloaded from Footprints, so any help you can offer would be very much appreciated.
After making some changes to the data window, the custom tab stops using the "default look and feel". Further, when I try to interact with the tab, such as by adding a row, Tessitura throws an error regarding a completely unrelated datawindow, for example, "w_donor_maint" and crashes out.
I can reproduce this error by starting with the Volunteer tab downloaded from Footprints, which "out of the box" works just fine. After deleting the "vol_date" column in the table definition in the database and going to Design -> Data Source in Infomaker to update the datawindow it becomes corrupted somehow. From then on I experience the crash as described above when I try to add a row via Tessitura.
Please see the attached screenshot.
My goal is to customize the canned custom report with our specific business needs, so I need to be able to remove some of the existing columns, add new columns, and so on.
I am extremely grateful for any assistance you can provide.
Regards,
Darrin
HI Darrin,
Good day.
I downlaoded the sample code, checked the infomaker screen, but I haven't installed them.
but I believe that you need to delete the text control too.
"cal_vol_date" is a funcation create by Tessitura only, it should show a calendar when you click it. (if you put "cal_" in front of date field, then text control becomes a function.)
since vol_date was missing, then this function couldn't link to anywhere, then you saw the error message.
have fun.
thank you for your time.
Ben