My point in all of this was just to point out that your demo is not using standard business precise for hotel

The demo does what I understood FMAsker to have requested.

I do not feel that it would have been appropriate to have posted anything else on this thread.

I'm sorry to hear that you feel otherwise.

Hi ho Ray and Bert, it was a bad day!!

Sure the sample technique is awesome,

Sure any sample should be taken as a sampler...

Sure that when a thread evolves as it did, there is a moment when anybody should start working on the technique rather that on the file itself.

I was expecting such a dilemna from the beginning here. Remember the thread title. A little help about dates.

I'm quite sure we've gone far further than the "little" expected by FMAsker. :smirk:

Hi Everyone!

I would have been surprised if Ray would have presented a demo in any other fashion. That is his style after all - as it should be. The purpose of a demo is to meet a User/Developer/Business need by solving a specific problem and not necessarily what you *think* they want. If a solution needs to be adjusted, it's up to the user to adjust or clarify. FMAsker received exactly what was requested in a brilliant fashion and Ray, as always, certainly delivers the best.

A demo should also only contain fields, calcs and scripts which specifically address the particular functionality of a request (or are required for navigation, etc). To give them anything other than requested, may confuse the receiver of the demo, who then must figure out how it all fits together and which parts of the code are applicable to their needs.

As someone very wise once told me, a demo file should contain "minimal props to 'frame' the exercise."

Cheers!

LaRetta

Well, in the hotel where I have been working, we talk to guests about check out date, but we book nights in the bookings system, just like in example provided by cobaltsky. I was very pleased to find this thread, and we may use the method.

It is sad to see such generous help being criticised. That way, soon there may be no more help.

I don't know about hotels, but the file CobaltSky posted sure has helped out a treat with what we are doing with a school timetable system. In fact it has been awesome, and has replaced a lot of mess with something so clean.

FMAsker may have said it was 'little', but it was a big question that was asked.

Thanks again to CobaltSky for this. I think its great that there is a forum like this where people are prepared to share such ideas!!

Hi LaRetta, Hi all,

Now that we've had "Women common good sense", let's have some kind of French Diplomacy as I understand the concerns of everyone after these passionate exchanges.

I'm quite sure there was no real critic to the sample from Bert, but more like a feeling that some here on the Forum could pick-up and use this solution, while there was, in his case, and still in his feeling, some "business related" concerns.

I'd have personnally started by sending a PM to Ray for him to adjust it, if really there was an error (fault isn't a big word BTW ?) but as I said, I was expecting some confusion after such a sampler had been delivered.

As Ray did noticed in a humorous manner (Keep this up and I'll have to start charging you a fee!! ), FMAsker did receive a splendid "workable solution" instead of what we generally call a sampler, a test file or a demo...and I can see from some other posts here that not only FMAsker, Bert and I, took profit of Ray's generous offer.

TVSilvan said :

"That way, soon there may be no more help. "

This will follow up as long as anybody here is keeping in mind the essence of the Forum : Members helping members. It's just a matter of defining what this Help may be.

I'm not sure though that we should issue demos that "only contain fields, calcs and scripts which specifically address the particular functionality of a request (or are required for navigation, etc). ".

This way, we all will be turning out to FMFiles or other Developpers Referenced sites....and we'll loose a bit of FMForums efficiency.

Let say that everybody may help with an attachment, and that some demos are better than others

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