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The meetup will have a strong focus on 'social', but there is an agenda on the [https://www.unicorninterglobal.com/news/2021/uk-dataflex-meetup-4th-march Unicorn InterGlobal site]. | The meetup will have a strong focus on 'social', but there is an agenda on the [https://www.unicorninterglobal.com/news/2021/uk-dataflex-meetup-4th-march Unicorn InterGlobal site]. | ||
====Summary of the meetup==== | |||
There were two main presentations: | |||
'''File handling in DataFlex - by Peter Bragg''' | |||
Donorflex has an application that has to process large numbers of text files and .csv files in particular. The application doesn’t have an API (yet!), so there is a lot of importing and exporting of files. Peter talks about their preparation for DataFlex 2021.20.0 and the changes they will implement to be ready for Unicode, such as, the introduction of byte order marks (BOMs) to indicate Unicode encoding of text files. For this presentation, you can: | |||
* see the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtFZddCLr4A&t=936s video presentation on Youtube]. | |||
* get the code from [https://github.com/DataFlexCode/cdsSeqFileHandler https://github.com/DataFlexCode/cdsSeqFileHandler] | |||
'''Hybrid presentation/discussion of creating a REST Wizard - by Mike Peat''' | |||
Hybrid because Mike had got to a certain point with creating a REST wizard and was asking for opinions and ideas as to what to do next. | |||
Before we launched into general social stuff, [https://johanbroddfelt.se/ Johan Broddfelt] told us about the updates that he's doing to his [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoXEqlT4TVIIP8EJHDFAl-GlUCwWONcY Discovering DataFlex] video series and asked for opinions and suggestions about what topics people would like to be recorded. | Before we launched into general social stuff, [https://johanbroddfelt.se/ Johan Broddfelt] told us about the updates that he's doing to his [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoXEqlT4TVIIP8EJHDFAl-GlUCwWONcY Discovering DataFlex] video series and asked for opinions and suggestions about what topics people would like to be recorded. | ||
