I use data templates on almost every XP through API explorer or Excel.
One amazing thing to have would be a Trigger to “Omit a collection Item”. Think of this like a view-based filtering.
For example, let’s say you’re showing 10 company records, each with fields like Company Name, Number of employees, and address.
You could create a trigger to Omit any collection items where the Employee Text field is less than 5. In the trigger you would use the conditional arguments that are already built in (If Text Field is less than 5) There wouldn’t need to be any action criteria at all…if the statement is true, then the record is removed from the set. So if you had 3 company records that match the criteria, your collection now only has 7 of the 10 items in it.
Think about all the uses for this - you could use this for quizzes, filtering records, creating dynamic forms that change based on selected criteria, and even creating conditional-based digital signage playlists. Holy Wow.
This would also fill in the gaps for some functions that a lot of API’s can’t do. If an API delivers a lot of extra info for an address, but doesn’t allow you to filter by that item, such as open/closed status of a business, you could use this to omit any records of businesses that aren’t open.
I hope this is possible. Help me vote this one up!
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