Hi Everyone, Excelent Topic!.. I am now in the midst of writing or should i say rewriting an existing CF/Flash forms app to a Flex/CF/FDS app with SQL 2000.
Its a dispatching system. we have several hundred agents creating a dispatch, on creation, each dispatch checks for availability of its team members and offers the dispatch to each member one at a time. there is a timeout between the offerings. The backend (CF) functions run on a schedule every 15 minutes none stop 24/7. If this task finds dispatches that need attention either from a tech or a manager, the underlying data is modified by the backend CFC. Once the dispatch has either been accepted by a tech or cancled by a manager the process is complete. Not much here for FDS on the catching of collisions, but there is alot of data changes that happen all the time. I am building a case for purchasing Flex and FDS. and need some good examples of how to accomlish the same types of things with the DAO objects and FDS and grids within a flex app. Here is my show stopper. I have yet to find a way (I am sure there is one) to call the sync methods of the FDS ArrayCollection representation of the underlying data by my existing CFC's that actually modify the data. In other words, no none flex code can push out the changes! This is a huge problem for me, i am not a Java coder, but i know a bit about it. I can call the create, update, and delete methods within the actual DAO cfc, but not the Assembler cfc. Those require an object to passed to them. a ChangeObject. and i do not know how to create on withing CF/CFC code in order to modify the data in a way that the clients will see the changes. I started my project out with the guts of the CFcontact example and i have read all the samples and articles on devnet, but nothing really stands out about how to modify this virtual data (FDS ArrayCollection) without actually Using Flex to make the changes. Anyway, this is my war story, hopefully i will find a solution and i can complete my Case study. By the way, i have had to blow away my installation of Flex Builder so many times now, i have run out of PC's to reinstall it on :( i dont want to buy it yet because of this issue... TIA if anyone knows how i can get around this. Tim -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
