3.8 - Test Find Books Dashboard
Last updated 12/06/2023
We have completed building the Find Books dashboard, so now would be a great time to run the Book Club application and test how it all works. We will use two member accounts so you can view what happens.The members, Chelsea and Rick, will be used to demonstrate how the Find Books dashboard works for both members.
As this demonstration is being performed locally, we will need to perform the following workflow to see how the Book Club application is currently working:
- Log in as Rick to search and request a book.
- Log in as Chelsea to see the request notification and accept the request.
- Log in as Rick again to see where the book is available to pickup.
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If you are working in the Cloud, you can just use different browsers for each member to prevent the need to log in and out of the Book Club application!
1. Click the Run button in Five's toolbar.
Figure 1 - Run button
Sign In With the Member Rick
1. Type rick in the Username field.2. Type Demo123! in the Password field.
3. Click the Sign In button.
Figure 2 - Sign in as the member Rick
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On intial log in, you will see a list of all of Rick's books in the system.
4. Click Find Books in the menu.
Figure 3 - Find Books menu item
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The Find Books menu holds the Find Books dashboard that we just created. Rick can either search for a book via the title or the ISBN for the book. The book/s will be returned if they are saved in the system.
5. Type TypeScript in the Title field.
6. Click the Search button.
Figure 4 - Search books
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The SetSearchISBN function attached to the On Click event for the SEARCH button is executed when the SEARCH button is clicked! The function sets the variables ISBN, Title, and UserKey and calls refresh on the Book and iUser tables so the live query monitoring the table will re-execute.
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All books with the word TypeScript in the title will be returned in the results. At the end of each row, the REQUEST BOOK button is available if the book is not already borrowed out. Four books are returned all owned by Chelsea.
Figure 5 - Books returned
7. Use the scroll if required and click the REQUEST BOOK button for the first record in the list.
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The RequestBook function attached to the On Click event for the REQUEST BOOK button is executed and calls the RequestBookServer function when the REQUEST BOOK button is clicked! The function will send a notification to the owner making a request for their book.
Figure 6 - REQUEST BOOK button
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An in-app message is sent to Rick informing him that his request for the book has been sent to the owner of the book.
8. Click the OK button.
Figure 7 - OK button
9. Click the Avatar button.
10. Click the Logout button.
Figure 8 - Log out as the member Rick
Sign In With the Member Chelsea
1. Type chelsea in the Username field.2. Type Demo123! in the Password field.
3. Click the Sign In button.
Figure 9 - Sign in as the member Chelsea
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On Chelsea's sign in, she has a notification.
3. Click the Notifications bell.
Figure 10 - Notifications button
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A request has been sent informing Chelsea that Rick would like to borrow her Mastering TypeScript 3 book. She could now find her book record for Mastering TypeScript 3 and edit the record and select Rick in the Borrow By field. We are not going to do this just yet as we need to add a table event to the Book table, this table event will execute when a Book record is updated and will send the member requesting the book (Rick) a notification as to where to pick the book up.
4. Click the Cancel button.
Figure 11 - Cancel button
5. Click the Avatar button.
6. Click the Logout button.
Figure 12 - Log out as the member Chelsea
7. Click the Cancel button for the window and return to Five.