filePro with AJAX - Article and Video

[Bruce Easton]

Great article, Mark!  I've been wanting to add AJAX functionality to
our web apps for quite some time, but kept putting it off because of
all the different pieces and disciplines involved.  Using filePro,
OneGate, Mark's article and some sample JS functions, I was able to
get a working example up in a couple of hours.  It would taken even
less time if I had been more careful in creating the right document
headers.

In my example, I just wanted to immediately show the address
fields of a selected location ID field without having to resend the
entire page.  I already have a list of several good applications of
this technique, so I'm thrilled that it can be done so easily from
filepro using OneGate and some Javascript.

In the ever-evolving web development environment, with all its
different technologies, I find that OneGate makes life easier
by staying flexible and by encouraging [and in some ways downright
demanding :)] both logical and functional organization.  And this
seems to naturally go hand-in-hand with its ability to provide a
secure environment from which to launch your apps.


Bruce


Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.


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Mark Luljak wrote Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:07 PM:

> I've written an article illustrating how one would do a fuzzy look-ahead
> name search using AJAX with filePro as a data source in a web application.
> Full code is not included, but decent flow outlines of both sides of the
> model are included in the article.  It gives you a decent idea without
> burying you in code.
>
> The article also happens to contain a link to a video where I demonstrate
> that feature working live against filePro, plus some other AJAX work I did
> on the same project.  This may prove illuminating for those interested in
> how this type of thing all goes together and the types of things you can
> do with the technology.
>
> If you're interested, you can read the article at:
>
> http://media.fairlite.com/pdf/filePro%20and%20AJAX%20-%20Making%20
> Magic%20Happen.pdf
>
> Bests,
>
> Mark Luljak
> Fairlight Consulting