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Hello,

I have set up a search form with Caspio.

Lets assume there are 2 types of users: those who pay and those who use the service for free.

 

Is there any way to limit the daily number of searches which the free user can run (say to 3 or 5 searches per day), while the users who are paying can run as many searches as they want daily,

 

Thanks for your help !

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Only 2 Datapages Required (No autosubmit hidden page) Solution.

Ive tested and created a working model of a search

which restricts the search based on:

1) Within 24 hours  :  allowed

2) Maximum searches : 5

 

Its slightly tricky but works beautifully .

It requires

1) setting up the tables correctly,

2) creating a view  

3) and some javascript code in the submit datapage.

 

Demo here

http://www.tripatwork.com/test-searchsubmit-page.html

 

user : guest@guest.com

pass : guest

 

Thanks ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 23/01/2017 at 6:35 PM, TexterVaid said:

Im guessing this is what you would have to do. 

 

 

Create 4 fields in a table

-UserID

-datetime field ("logindatetime" of user)

-SearchCount field (Integer)

-PaidUser ? (Yes/No)

 

 

Every time a FreeUser logs in:

-stamp his UserID in the UserID field

- stamp the current datetime in the "logindatetime" field.

 

Everytime a FreeUser completes a search 

-Increase the SearchCount with an increment of 1

 

With javascript and/or Calculatedfield everytime a User Logs In 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

1)

lastlogindatetime= get last  logindatetime from table which is within 24 hours  (Use calculated fields) 

 

validlogintime=  current time - 24 hours

 

If  currenttime <= validlogindatetime then Free User will be permitted to Search

 

 

2)  If lastlogindatetime  < 24 hours AND PaidUser= No  AND  SearchCount < 5 then

then allow search

else if PaidUser=Yes

then allow search

else Do not allow to search

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Calculated Fields

http://howto.caspio.com/faq/reports-datapages/calculated-fields-and-datediff-function/

Hey there. So tried to do it. I created my table, but I do not know where to input the Javascript ... :S

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2 hours ago, TWIRED said:

 

Add A Header & Footer to Your DataPage.

Javascript is generally put in the footer of the DataPage

Thanks a lot !

 

When you say "

Every time a FreeUser logs in:

-stamp his UserID in the UserID field

- stamp the current datetime in the "logindatetime" field.

 

Everytime a FreeUser completes a search 

-Increase the SearchCount with an increment of 1

"

 

Do you mean that I will have to do that manually everytime?

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<script type="text/javascript">

var maxsearchesallowed=5;

var counter=0;
var counter="[@field:DummyCount#]";

var paiduser="[@field:DummyPaidUser^]";

var searchpermitted=document.getElementById("EditRecordDummySearchPermitted").value;
//alert("searchpermitted= "+searchpermitted);
//alert("counter="+counter);

//----------------------today date format---

var today = new Date();
//alert(today);
var dd = today.getDate();
//alert("todays date= " + dd);
var mm = today.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
//alert("todays month= " + mm);

var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
if(dd<10){
    dd='0'+dd;

if(mm<10){
    mm='0'+mm;

var today = mm+'/'+dd+'/'+yyyy;

//today=new Date(today);

var searchdate=document.getElementById("EditRecordDummyUserSearchDate").value;

//test
//today=searchdate;

function myFunction() {
//alert("today=  "+today);
//alert("searchdate= " + searchdate);
//alert("paiduser= "+paiduser);

if((today => searchdate) && (paiduser=="No" && Number(counter) < Number(maxsearchesallowed) ) )
{
alert("allow to search");
document.getElementById("EditRecordDummyUserSearchDate").value=today;
document.getElementById("EditRecordDummyCount").value=Number(counter)+1;
document.getElementById("EditRecordDummySearchPermitted").checked=true;

//alert("counter="+counter);

else
{
alert("sorry, you have exceeded your quota!");
document.getElementById("EditRecordDummySearchPermitted").checked=false;
document.getElementById("cbParamVirtual2")[0].value="http://www.tripatwork.com/test-searchsubmit-page.html";
return false;
}

}


document.getElementById("caspioform").onsubmit=myFunction; 

</script>

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