Favorites & Recently Viewed side bar

[pauln]

Hi All

This request is a bit tricky as I love the favorites & recently viewed feature.

I am using a Catalogue View and moving to a form by clicking the Caption of a catalogue item and passing a search field value.
The issue is when using them on a larger DB the unique search key is probably going to be a UID or unique number.
In this picture below the Member ID is used initially but how can we use it as either a favorite or recent when it is just a number and gives no indication who it may be?



If I swap it to LAST NAME the issue becomes finding the right SMITH or in this case "Bell". As there is 5 last names using "Bell" it found the 1st record, not the record we clicked.

Is it possible to enhance Favorites & Recents to have an alternative display field(s) or expression?
Wanted to discuss here in case this is already possible.
Thanks Paul.

[barrymavin]

Hi Paul,

Did you know that you can use a search panel with webviews which a catalogue view is based on?

See doc (search panel)

https://www.lianja.com/doc/index.php...ion_Attributes

[barrymavin]

Hi Paul,

The favorites and recents are based on the search key for the section. There is no way to display an alternate value.

[pauln]

Thanks Barry for confirming.
So it has not been requested before?
If we use a unqiue key to move from say a Catalogue View to Grid Form, then the "Recents" will just have a bunch of senseless keys...

As I said great tool, I thought in your previous post you were suggesting writing my own RSP component that could interact with "Recents" & "Favorites".
Thanks Paul

[barrymavin]

Hi Paul

No there haven’t been any requests to map these values. Would need two new delegates and implemented in desktop and web apps.

6.3 is imminent to ship and I don’t want to delay it as many people waiting for it.