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- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: Re: FAQ? Defining a query page against multiple field/multiple table
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.173516.15089@cas.org>
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- Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
- References: <1992Jul28.132643.24259@cas.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:22:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.132643.24259@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- :
- :1. I have never seen a comprehensive FAQ posted to this group - is one
- :available?
-
- Well, I got one answer - that so far one has not evolved. Too bad...
-
- :
- :Goal, not only to permit entry of the above information, but to allow
- :the user to query against any combination of Name, Employee number,
- :Activity description and total hours.
- :
- :Where does one start to permit the above query? The problem is that I do NOT
-
- Well, the overwhelming recommendation (thanks to the 2 people who responded)
- was that I should define a view consisting of the 3 different tables and
- then switch the user to a form based on that view when the user pressed
- the Enter Query key.
-
- Now, for the next problem. One of the two people who responded indicated that
- if I based the block on a view, I would have to write all of the query code
- myself - but then indicated that I would need to write insert, delete and
- update triggers.
-
- What I thought about doing was something like this:
-
- When the Key-Enter Query trigger occurs, move the user to a new block
- which contains the new fields which they can query on. Then, in the post
- query trigger, I need to somehow move the resulting query info back into
- the original form. Since one of the fields on the query block will be
- the primary key of all the tables on the input screen, is there some way
- I can copy the 'set' of queried values back to the other page so that it
- appears to the user as if all of the records are available to them?
-
-
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