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A powerful, feature-rich, random test data generator.
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Complex series #216

Open monksy opened 10 years ago

monksy commented 10 years ago

It would be nice to allow for the GenerateData tool to build stacks of ranges.

I.e.

Start at row: (0) - Constant (1) Start at row: (5) - "Number Range" (1-10) Start at row (8) - Custom List (Even numbers)

This would generate the values up until the max row.

I looked at the Smarty template language and it doesn't look like that this is possible with the smarty template.

benkeen commented 10 years ago

Yeah, agreed. I found I needed something like this for my own work. I ended up adding a "loop count" option for the Constants data type. That let you define a constant that would be applied to chunks of generated rows, e.g. the first 50 get a "1" the next 50 get a "2" and so on.

Not as advanced as what you're requesting, but simpler in the UI for sure. I'm not sure how the UI would look to be able to do something as fine-tuned as what you need.