Re-using views for multiple scenes

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Hi All,

I’ve been staring at this problem and tried a few things but for the life of me I can;t come up with a solution. Now it may be that it can’t be done by virtue of the nature of the database container but I thought I’d throw it out there anyway.

The guts of our system is recording the many details under a variety of topics for servicemen in WW2.

The heart of these are

  • Main Data Maintenance includ birth, death, enlistment, unit, awards etc
  • Details of Decease (war and post war) and images of both military and/or civil memorials
  • Comments and Notes by research team
  • Media & Memorabilia items
  • Prisoner of War events and camps held at during interment
  • Wounded in Action events, dates and places
  • Images of the Soldier, enlistment photo, digital tribute we produce, red cross file etc
  • Stories and Annecdotes
  • Final Review completion and other data

But there is a commonality to the “pages” for each of these screens.

  • A menu item to return to the main screen of calling
  • Two details only views LH and RH side of the page which show info from related files showing information on Unit and the soldier basics suich as surname, given name, service no and a global file-key.

Currently these 3 items are repeated on every screen and subsequently have a different view no on each screen and each has to be manually maintained if a change in design is considered.

Surely as these are common we must be able to re-use a standard layout for each page WITHOUT HAVING TO MAKE A COPY OF IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN ???

eXAMPLE

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Appears at the top of every one of the scenes listed at the beginning of this post.

Any ideas suggestions ???

Some of scenes examples below![image|601x500]

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Hi @RayWindlow47079

In regards to styling changes what I could suggest is that if something unique that requires a specific style on that view we could use javascript to apply a class to that view using if statements.

If you havn’t tried this here is a simple version below

$("view_** .kn-details:contains(NOT-QUALIFIED").addClass('designA');

Then you could target styling to be applied like this

.view_xx.designA {
padding:10px;
}

Done loads of this stuff before so if you want help just ping me a email
johnny@appknowledged.co.uk

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yes there is a way to do this depending on your table relationships. I do this one an app that I share one view for 7 different pages. I would be happy to show you how I did it. email me and we can start and schedule a time to share. nick@cruzts.com. Happy to help. :slightly_smiling_face: