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The Power and Ease of Action Scripting in Version 5
by Frances Peake
If you have not been using the new Action Scripting Genies in Alpha Five version 5, you are missing out on a tremendously powerful tool. Frances Peake shows, in this web demonstration, how easily a multi-faceted user interface dialog can be created using Action Scripting. The task she uses to demonstrate Action Scripting is:
A report needs to be printed or displayed. The report is a listing of Invoices from the AlphaSports database that ships with Alpha Five version 5. The user needs to be able to select a date range. All printed or displayed records must fall within this date range. The user also needs to be able to further filter the invoices for a specific sales representative that took the original order. Follow along, by clicking on the link below, while Frances shows us how this is done.
Click here
to view Frances Peake's demonstration of the 'Alpha Five Way'.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Frances Peake has a B.A. in History from Tufts University in Massachusetts. She became interested in computers in the mid-1980's while working at a historical society in Boston. She was employed by Alpha Software Corporation from 1986 to 1990 as a Technical Support Representative and then as Manager of Technical Support and Quality Assurance. In 1990 Frances relocated to Miami, Florida and began working as an independent consultant. Her company, Peake Database Associates, specializes in Alpha Five and Microsoft Access database development, training and support. Frances co-teaches the Get Outta DOS Alpha Four to Alpha Five transition Seminar and the Get Into Alpha Five! Seminar with Susan Bush. Frances was a speaker at the 2000 and 2002 Alpha Five Developer's Conference. She has also led the South Florida Database User Group since 1990.
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