I would suggest you create a new category called Suggestions or Enhancement Requests. That seems simpler than putting everything under How do I. Here are my suggestions:
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I once requested being able to return from an input form to the form I called that input form from, and be able to return directly to the form page (subform) that was active before I went to the input form. Control does go back to the form, but I then have to click on the subform’s tab at the top. I believe Jo said something about this being worked on. Any progress?
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Any progress about Five recognizing MySQL’s inherent calculated fields feature, which I believe has been available since their version 5.x? The current method is a bit clunky, and only works if you change a field value on the form itself. So if I have a calculated field called SortName whose formula is FirstName + comma + LastName, I can modify that by changing either FirstName or LastName on the form. But if I run a SQL query to modify either of those 2 values, the SortName is not updated. If you changed five to add the Calculated field type and let MySQL do the rest, it would be much easier.
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I suggested some time ago adding a report design feature that allowed rows to alternate shading on the rendered report, so every other row could be shaded light grey or other desired color. I was able to work around this by modifying my report query to return a row count on each record, then using that “record number” to conditionally color the line’s background on the report. While this works, it is not perfect. If odd number rows are “white” and even number rows are “grey”, it sort of works, but if there is an odd number of rows that fit on the page, then the next page shows the first record shaded because it has an even record number. Much better would be a feature that automatically shades alternate rows for each page (or section/group) of the report. Any progress on this?
Thanks…