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Re: Dynamic form generation [message #177695 is a reply to message #177679]

Sat, 14 April 2012 13:53

Peter H. Coffin
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:59:52 +0100, Tony Marston wrote:
>
> "Charles" <cchamb2(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in message
> news:6651622.883.1334288601914.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfj25...
>> Absolutely correct. The database has 34 active and 34 historical tables
>> so far, and my guess is that about another dozen or so of each to create.
>> I can visualize the relationships between the tables, and I'm normalizing
>> as
>> I go on table structure, but having to write and maintain somewhere around
>> 150 scripts each and every time I so much as sneeze (add/remove a field or
>> change a field type in any of the 100 tables) is daunting.
>
>> I'm just as comfortable with calling a script to do crate each form as I
>> need it.
>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> If you used a proper framework then you wouldn't have to do so much work for
> a minor database change. If you used radicore all you would have to do is
> re-import the table's structure into the data dictionary and then export the
> updated structure to replace the table's structure file. The only time you
> would need to modify another script would be if you needed to change the
> screen structure (by modifying a small screen structure file) or a business
> rule (by modifying that table's class file).

Wow.... All that. All Charles *really* needed to do was actually specify
what column names he was fetching and 90% of the work he wants to
eliminate GOES AWAY AUTOMATICALLY.

--
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; give him a freshly-charged
Electric Eel and chances are he won't bother you for anything ever
again.
-- Tanuki

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