I've added a couple of custom fields to the Order in the Infusionsoft and now I'm trying to save data into those fields with API. I thought I could use Update method of data service like this:
apiProxy.Update(InfusionsoftHelper._InfusionsoftApiKey, "Order", orderId, obj);
Unfortunately it does know Order table. I can't find an appropriate table name in their documentation.
Has anyone done something similar? Thanks in advance!
The "Order" table is called "Job" in the API.
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I need some help. I need to insert other objects when I call e.g. a item service create method. But I don't know how to achieve this in the service class of the item model.
I got a database table where I need to store an Id of another table entry, but first I need to insert this entry.
And I want to this this with one call.
Thanks!
Ok, it's simple. Use the feathers CLI to generate a custom service.
In my Firebase database, I have a data structure similar to this:
The post ID (1a3b3c4d5e) is generated by the ChildByAutoId() function.
The user ID (fn394nf9u3) is the UID of the user.
In my app, I have a UILabel (author) and I would like to update it with the 'full name' of the user who created the post.
Since I have a reference to the post ID in the users part of the database, I assume there must be some code (if statement?) to check if the value exists and if so, update the label.
Can you help with that?
While it is possible to do the query (ref.child("Users").queryOrdered(byChild: "Posts/1a3b3c4d5e").queryEqual(toValue:true)), you will need to have an index on each specific user's posts to allow this query to run efficiently. This is not a feasible strategy.
As usual when working with NoSQL databases: if you need to do something that your current data model doesn't allow, change your data model to allow the use-case.
In this case that can either be adding the UID of the user to each post, or alternative add the user name to each post (as Andre suggests) and determining if/how you deal with user name changes.
Having such relational data in both directions to allow efficient lookups in both directions is very common in NoSQL database such as Firebase and Firestore. In fact I wrote a separate answer about dealing with many-to-many relations.
If you can change the structure then that is very good because I don't think you are maintaining proper structure for database.
You should take one more key name createdBy inside the Post node so actully structure would be
{description:"Thus the post is here", title:"Hello User", createdBy:"Javed Multani"}
Once you do this, It will dam easy to get detail of user.
OR
Unethical solution,
You can achieve this thing like while you are going to show Post from post node of firabase. Definitely you'll get the auto generated postid like:
1a3b3c4d5e
now first you should first get only posts then inside the successfully getting data and parsing you have to get users and find inside the user by putting the codition like postId == UserPostId if match found take fullname value from there.
I am currently building a small crm application. I need each user to be able to define their own custom fields. I am currently building this crm using php and mysql.
Example: I have a "customer" table which has the standard fields: name, phone, address, email, etc. But i want to allow the user (unique session) to add fields that are custom to his/her business which are only accessible to him (not other users). I then want these custom fields to function just like all the other fields in the table (ability to search, send and received data). I am hoping i can accomplish this in mysql and php but am open to any technology or solution that is considered best practice. Thank you for your help.
This can be done by creating a table called "customfields" with the elements "id, fieldname, company_id", then another table that would associate those custom fields with data, eg "customercustomdata: id, customfields_id, customer_id". Associate "ownership" of a field the same way
To create a new custom field, "insert into customfields (fieldname,company_id) values ('Birthday',companyid);"
Does that help?
#Matt H: Is this method considered AEV or just standard relational db?
So because i will have many users in many dif industries that will want to add their own custom fields to a number of different tables (contacts, transactions, events, etc) i am assuming that i would need the customfield table to have a user_fk/id or company fk/id, a related table fk/id, an id, and a field name? Am i on the right track? Then in the need to create a 2nd table to hold the data for each custom field buy having a customfield fk/id, customer fk/id, id and a data field to hold the actual data. Is this correct?
Ok so once i build those two additional tables how do I add them to the contacts table so it looks like one big table for the user, instead of the 3 tables?
Thanks again for you help.
Answer
after much research i have found that most people who wish to accomplish this are using document databases not relational databases.
You could place an extra column for storing string data and store an array describing the contents for custom cells. For example:
$custom = array(
array("field" => "bikesOwned", "value" => 4),
array("field" => "travelled", "value" => 14)
);
then use something like PHPs json_encode to store that data in the extra cell. Then all you would need to do is decode and process the array.
Some people suggesting using the Entity-Attribute-Value design, but before you do, please read Bad CaRMa, a story about an EAV-like design that nearly destroyed a company because it was unmaintainable.
To solve this better, read How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. You can lump all the custom columns into a single BLOB, and store it that way. Then if you want individual attributes to be searchable, create a table for that attribute, that maps values back to the customers table.
I need to load data into two objects. I am able to load data into one object using the data loader. The second object has a master-details relationship with the first object so I need to have the unique record id of the records of first object in the CSV file. How can I add those record id's to my CSV file?
You could download the "master" records after initial upload and perform some mapping similar to (Name -> Id). In Excel this could be achieved with VLOOKUP. Once you have generated new list of "detail" objects, there should be no problem uploading them. The mapping "ID->uploaded records" is also available in the success log file created by Apex Data Loader.
But the better way is to say loudly "screw the Salesforce ID, I don't need no stinking ID" :)
Think if your "master" has some unique field. It can even be the "ID" from your existing system from which you import to Salesforce. Create this field in Salesforce (if you didn't do it already) and mark it as "External ID". Afterwards you will be able to use this external ID instead of normal Salesforce ID as a way to make the link between source and target. In pseudocode:
with normal Salesforce ID you must
INSERT INTO detail_object (Name, SomeValue, master_ID) VALUES ("foo", "bar", [some valid salesforce id])
With external IDs you can have it easy and tell salesforce to do all the heavy lifting
INSERT INTO detail_object (Name, SomeValue, master_ID) VALUES ("foo", "bar", (SELECT Id from master_object where some_field_marked_as_external_id = "123")
Check out the Data Loader user guide for quick start and play with external ids if you can (in the free developer edition maybe?). It's easier to use than to describe it.
If you are using the Apex Data loader then you will have to do 3 things:
1: insert the master record(s). this will give them IDs
2: export those master records again including their IDs, and integrate that into your details data. A VLOOKUP is most useful for that sort of thing.
Or if there is only one master record, even easier, just copy the ID out of the URL and add it in on every detail record in your spreadsheet.
3: then insert the detail records with the master IDs
I'm working with a third party software package that is on it's own database. We are using it for the user management back bone on our application. We have an API to retrieve data and access info.
Due to the nature of information changing daily, we can only use the user_id as a pseudo FK in our application, not storing info like their username or name. The user information can change (like person name...don't ask).
What I need to do is sort and filter (paging results) one of my queries by the person's name, not the user_id we have. I'm able to get an array of the user info before hand. Would my best bet be creating a temporary table that adds an additional field, and then sorts by that?
Using MySQL for the database.
You could adapt the stored procedure on this page here to suit your needs the stored procedure is a multi purpose one and is very dynamic, but you could alter it to suit your needs for filtering the person table.
http://weblogs.asp.net/pwilson/archive/2003/10/10/31456.aspx
You could combine the data into an array of objects, then sort the array.
Yes, but you should consider specifically where you will make the temporary table. If you do it in your web application then your web server is stuck allocating memory for your entire table, which may be horrible for performance. On the other hand, it may be easier to just load all your objects and sort them as suggested by eschneider.
If you have the user_id as a parameter, you can create a user defined function which retrieves the username for you within the stored procedure.
Database is on different servers. For all purposes, we access it via an API and the data is then turned into an array.
For now, I've implemented the solution using LINQ to filter and out the array of objects.
Thanks for the tips and helping me go in the right direction.