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06. Reactor Development Tutorial
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Section A: BlackBox Management
BlackBox Files
If you have not done so before, now would be the ideal time to go through the in-app tutorial for Reactor. You can do this from the Support screen in Reactor.
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You can do this manually by clicking ‘upload’. If you no longer wish to pull any changes back into Reactor, click ‘close’ - though this won’t close the file in your text editor, you’ll need to do that yourself. And you can re-open the file at any point. Ie, if you’re done making your changes and want to pull these changes in - click Upload. You can then click close.
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BlackBoxes Functions and Parameters
Click the ‘functions’ tab and you can see a list of functions for the BlackBox. Most of the time, there will be a single function for each BlackBox, but if you wish to create a suite of BlackBox utilities for a single BlackBox, you can create a function for each,
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As of this point, we have now provided all the details to build it into a BlackBox, click across to the Preview tab.
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Compiling and Previewing
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Click ‘Compile’ and if you switch back to the Functions tab you’ll now see a file below the BlackBox details. The BlackBox file itself - which you can now take and deploy anywhere using the following function:
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FR Toolbox and Talking With FileMaker
Introduction to FRToolBox and Asynchronicity
Anytime you create a BlackBox there is a single file that will always be included: FRToolBox.js
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Reactor is now pulling through the values of the Schedules::Description fields for the records that are included in the related set from our current context.
Pulling a single record
We can pull records from a found set, but what if you want to pull a single record?
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If you try changing the QueryValue to a different planet, the output will change accordingly:
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Updating a record
For this section we’ll be creating two new functions:
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For this section let’s create a new function that creates a new record.
CreatePlanet
It will have two parameters: PlanetNameField and PlanetDescriptionField
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Now pop back to our PlanetList function, and confirm our new planet has appeared:
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And there it is!
Deleting a record
For this section let’s create a new function that deletes a record. As with the last section, we’ll build in an HTML interface - this time to identify the planet we wish to delete.
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