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Anything related to data-entry, i.e. the process of manually entering data into a system by a human operator.

Anything related to data-entry, i.e. the process of manually entering data into a system by a human operator.

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Weekly-based populating a database with the django admin

I'm building an small django app in order to manage a store employees roster. The employees are freelancers-like, they have weekly almost-fixed schedules, and may ask for extra ones at any weekday/time. I'm new to both python and django, and I'm…
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Linq / data object best practices

I am a new asp.net programmer and I just asked this question which left me with a more general one. What is/are the current best practices regarding Linq and data objects? Specifically when to; dim, new and dispose of them. Also what about objects…
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How would you design a form with many dynamic fields?

We have a form that allows a user to dynamically add inputs for fields. For example if you have a form for tracking projects, you want to dynamically add tasks to that project. Just to clarify my language: you dynamically add inputs for the task…
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Good methods for human-readable & human-maintained databases

So this is the scenario: You have a bunch of data that needs to end up in SQL. It needs to entered by hand. It is not an "enter once and you're done" scenario: it will need to be modified and expanded by humans in an ongoing iterative way.…
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Data Entry form layout

I would like to get my data entry form to be dislayed in mentioned below sample format. Thing is i almost have 40 fields to be displayed. So i would prefer this format and scrollbar too. Can anyone tell me the better way for these many fields in…
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Browser automation - append javascript to pages and wait for task completion

I have an ugly data entry task that needs automation. The problem is that some of the processes rely on web-based ajax services which have no API. The problem with iMacros (or any other automation tool) is that whenever the macro injects javascript…
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What are some good UI Patterns for dealing with potentially large matrices of data?

I'm migrating an old vb desktop app to an ASP.NET web application version. The app allows someone to spec out a quote for a building, floor by floor, specify how many of each item, are needed on each floor. The existing DB is a very simple M:N…
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automating LIMS data entry

I begin to work as a stagiaire in a pharmaceutical company, they expect to me that I will read the Master Batch Records, that is the detailed recipes of their drugs, and that I will put the parts regarding the "in process controls" in their LIMS…
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NET MAUI - Keep keyboard focused on ListView update

I have a ListView with an ObservableCollection of Database Entries. When I update the Observable collection the focus of the Entry get lost and the keyboard disappears. Even when i set the focus afterwards manually the keyboard does not…
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Set column E from column B when a value from D exists in A

When a value entered in D exists in A, E and F should be populated from B and C respectively. So, when "New York" is pasted in column D, E for that row should be set to 33 and F should be set to 3. Values in A and D are unordered and column A has…
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TTK Enty validation issue

I am writing my very first GUI app with Py and Tkinter (Ttkinter). I want to be sure that the user can write only digits, "," and "." in the entries field. So far I did this but I have a couple of issues: I am not able to make it accept "," and…
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How to remove everything after 3rd comma in Excel cell

I have data in excel format I want to remove all links after 3rd comma in each cell. I used this code =LEFT(X13,FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(X13,",","|",3))) But it is not working. Can someone please help
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Maui Entry with keyboard = "Numeric" only accept numbers. Need a sequence of numbers

I am making a MAUI app where I need the Entry class to accept a sequence of numbers like "10,30,222,33". When setting Keyboard = "Numeric" the Entry class only accept entering a float like "-1.23". It seems that the Entry class have a built in…
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Better/faster way to pass 50+ values from one Google sheet to another

I'm brand new to App Script, so please forgive my ignorance. The Google sheet I use to hold student data is so long and unwieldy (50+ columns) that I decided to create another sheet to act as a front-end for data entry. Through hours of tutorial…
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Autofill excel from text boxes and fields from work sheet column entries VBA?

I need to create a macro that can take data in columns F through I and autofill it down to the last cell in column E that has data in it. The code below almost does what I need it to do. However, I want to be able to use this macro with different…
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