Time Matters is an extremely powerful program that can be extensively customized. The downside is that in order to do some of the customization, you have to know one or more of a variety of programming languages (html, java). Hence the growth of consultants specializing in these areas.
I am not a programmer, so I have to be content with talking to people who are and/or making a little collection of items that need specialized code. Here are a couple of items.
First, you want to link an address to Google Maps. Here is the code to link a field to Google in a PowerView (note that this may also be available in one of the Desktop Extensions in TM 10):
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q={CON:CON1_02_03} {CON:CON1_02_04} {CON:CON1_02_07}" target="_blank">(Main Address Google™ Map)</a>.
Once again, this illustrates the difference between TM and Amicus: Amicus has this function built in to the Premium edition, but uses MapQuest instead of Google. No way to change that: it is what it is.
A second item would be to convert a numerical date into a descriptive date. To do this, customize a field to be calculated and enter the following:
Text '&FORMAT(EVE:DATE,@D4)&'
Operator appended
Text (blank)
This translates the Event Date field 01/01/2010 into January 1, 2010
Another trick I posted a couple of years ago is the ability to calculate a person’s age. Here’s that one:
Assume you have a field for the person’s date of birth, say field 3 in area 3 of the contact form. Then create a calculated text field with the following calculation:
'&AGE(DEFORMAT(CON:CON1_03_03,@D2)) &'
where “03_03" is the date of birth field and the operator is: Appended. The second field should be listed as Text, but left blank.
Note that if the date of birth field is not filled in, the person will be listed as being 2010 years old.
I am not a programmer, so I have to be content with talking to people who are and/or making a little collection of items that need specialized code. Here are a couple of items.
First, you want to link an address to Google Maps. Here is the code to link a field to Google in a PowerView (note that this may also be available in one of the Desktop Extensions in TM 10):
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q={CON:CON1_02_03} {CON:CON1_02_04} {CON:CON1_02_07}" target="_blank">(Main Address Google™ Map)</a>.
Once again, this illustrates the difference between TM and Amicus: Amicus has this function built in to the Premium edition, but uses MapQuest instead of Google. No way to change that: it is what it is.
A second item would be to convert a numerical date into a descriptive date. To do this, customize a field to be calculated and enter the following:
Text '&FORMAT(EVE:DATE,@D4)&'
Operator appended
Text (blank)
This translates the Event Date field 01/01/2010 into January 1, 2010
Another trick I posted a couple of years ago is the ability to calculate a person’s age. Here’s that one:
Assume you have a field for the person’s date of birth, say field 3 in area 3 of the contact form. Then create a calculated text field with the following calculation:
'&AGE(DEFORMAT(CON:CON1_03_03,@D2)) &'
where “03_03" is the date of birth field and the operator is: Appended. The second field should be listed as Text, but left blank.
Note that if the date of birth field is not filled in, the person will be listed as being 2010 years old.
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Posted by: id scanner | June 27, 2010 at 05:33 AM