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WaynePendley
Qrew Trainee
8 years ago

How to prompt the user if the sum of specified fields is not equal to 100% ?

We want to include some automatic checking of date entry errors, and in one of our apps we need to have the sum of several fields that the user enters total to 100%.  What are some efficient ways to p...
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WaynePendley's avatar
WaynePendley
Qrew Trainee
8 years ago
Well many users do find the click-and-drag Quick Base formulas more intuitive than scripting.  And "do it yourself" is more than a marketing pitch -- its a real value than even teams with smaller budgets can appreciate.

But I do think your quote is the most important thing I have ever read on these community pages:

"With the passage of time the QuickBase Singularity has arrived. We are converged and everything is now possible with QuickBase (using script).
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    _anomDiebolt_
    Qrew Elite
    8 years ago
    >Well many users do find the click-and-drag Quick Base formulas more intuitive than scripting.

    Maybe so but the cold hard reality is that without script solutions you would be hitting a brick wall with no options or workarounds if you only availed youself of native features. Every well formed question asked in the forum has a quick and short solution with script whereas not so much if you rely exclusively on native features. Javascript has taken over the world.

    Atwood's Law
    Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_...