{"id":127,"date":"2008-07-13T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/lisa\/post\/2008\/07\/13\/TMM-Whats-hot-and-whats-not.aspx"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:16:49","slug":"tmm-whats-hot-and-whats-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2008\/07\/13\/tmm-whats-hot-and-whats-not\/","title":{"rendered":"TMM: What&#8217;s hot and what&#8217;s not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ask her\" href=\"mailto:cathy@frontier2000.com\">Cathy<\/a>\u00a0e-mailed me on May 31st:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Lisa,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out how to use the new Advanced Property called &#8220;HTML.Metatag.HTTP-EQUIV&#8221;.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t figure out how it wants me to format my tags.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried some things like the following two examples [LSN: omitted here because they weren&#8217;t even close]&#8230; but I can&#8217;t seem to hit the right combination.\u00a0 The VFP Help file gives absolutely no clue at all on how to use this property.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping you can tell me how to format the expression for this advanced property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course I can. And of course the VFP help file gives &#8220;absolutely no clue&#8221;, although <a title=\"blog post explaining TMM\" href=\"\/lisa\/2007\/10\/17\/What-LSN-was-Not-Allowed-to-Do-What-LSN-Plans-to-Do-About-It-Now-and-What-You-and-I-Will-Never-Call-It\/\">there isn&#8217;t much I could do about that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every FX\/GFX or listener that recognizes an Advanced Property or other Reporting MemberData has the ability to decide how it wants to do this type of thing.\u00a0 HTML.Metatag.HTTP-EQUIV is a complex instruction, specified in a specific type of XML (complex, but designed to be really easy to create, as you&#8217;ll see) by HTMLListener, the class that recognizes and leverages it.<\/p>\n<p>Problem was, e-mailing Cathy back wasn&#8217;t the right way to handle the question, especially as she wrote back about 10 minutes later saying she had gotten the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The right way was to write more TMM stuff for everybody to reference. In this case several\u00a0docoids\u00a0I hadn&#8217;t gotten to yet\u00a0were required to flesh out the whole idea.\u00a0 So these topics got\u00a0moved to the top of my list, and are now available to you.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the order I&#8217;ve listed them\u00a0here is the order in which I recommend you read them, not the order in which the appear in the TMM ToC, which is presented as an excerpt from the CHM Table of Contents structure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"TMM docoid on Document Properties\" href=\"\/articles\/tmm\/tmm-document-properties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Using Document Properties in Reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"TMM docoid on Run Collector concept\" href=\"\/articles\/tmm\/tmm-base-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">_ReportListener&#8217;s RunCollector<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"TMM docoid on VFP-RDL XML and the run collection\" href=\"\/articles\/tmm\/tmm-xmllistener-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Using Document Properties and the Run Collection in XMLReportListener and its Derived Classes<\/a> **<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"TMM docoid with other important HTML Advanced Property examples\" href=\"\/articles\/tmm\/tmm-advanced-properties-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to: Use Advanced HTML Properties in Reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"TMM docoid on Advanced Properties and the ReportBuilder\" href=\"\/articles\/tmm\/tmm-advanced-properties-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to: Register New Advanced Properties in the ReportBuilder Application<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a title=\"TMM docoid on HTMLListener\" href=\"\/articles\/tmm\/tmm-htmllistener\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-existing TMM\u00a0docoid on HTMLListener<\/a> was also extensively revised in this TMM sprint, so check that one too.<\/p>\n<p>** this is where Cathy&#8217;s specific question is answered, but you really do need the background, really and truly.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot going on here. HTMLListener doesn&#8217;t invent a system to handle this particular Document Property just because it owns that property.\u00a0 HTMLListener is supported in this work by a large and capable extension architecture.<\/p>\n<h4>Here&#8217;s something I <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> do<\/h4>\n<p>You notice I say Cathy wrote on May 31st.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now the middle of July.\u00a0 And adding this set of docoids took me all this time, working really hard to find the time to do it.\u00a0 Honestly.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do it any faster, <strong>and I won&#8217;t do it in a vacuum.\u00a0 I mean to say: <\/strong>I don&#8217;t know what people are using, or interested in using, or not.\u00a0I have zero time or interest in doing stuff you don&#8217;t have a need for.<\/p>\n<h4>Don&#8217;t be a stranger<\/h4>\n<p>You have a question not yet available in the TMM?\u00a0Is there a\u00a0topic listed in the TMM ToC but not yet linked to a published page that you&#8217;d like priority given to?\u00a0 Is there a topic\u00a0not listed in the TMM ToC\u00a0set of docoids that you really think\u00a0needs addressing?\u00a0\u00a0Let me know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do the best I can to get to it, and (grid willing) some of them will be faster to write a proper answer for than this one was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy\u00a0e-mailed me on May 31st: Hi Lisa, I&#8217;m trying to figure out how to use the new Advanced Property called &#8220;HTML.Metatag.HTTP-EQUIV&#8221;.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t figure out how it wants me to format my tags.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried some things like the following two examples [LSN: omitted here because they weren&#8217;t even close]&#8230; but I can&#8217;t seem to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2008\/07\/13\/tmm-whats-hot-and-whats-not\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vfp-tmm","category-visual-foxpro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}