Feature Request for Microsoft

[Paul Schandel]

In your Database Interface Wizard I noticed you allowed for the creation of
a database, but not for future expansion or addon. Now less I'm blind it
would be beneficial to have.

So that the table can grown with added fields, fields deleted, etc.. Right
now the only method I notice is that I can delete the whole database and
start over... Which isn't much fun at all.

So my feature request would be to make the DIW allow you to add and remove
fields in a table later on after initial creation of the database.

That is all.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Add the new fields to your form, then you will have a option to update the
database under Form Properties.

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[Paul Schandel]

Thomas, yes this does work.

But the DIW has comments in the add/edit/delete pages which advises you
against using such methods as it would "break" the pages. Tells you not to
use the Database Results Wizard. Doesn't this update do exactly that? And
when using it, it doesn't update all the pages associated with it. This why
I was suggesting a wizard in conjunction with DIW that would allow for
future Modificats.



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Add the new fields to your form, then you will have a option to update the
database under Form Properties.

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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP would have no way of knowing what pages you have created after having run
the wizard to then update or if you have made any manual code changes. So if
you add or remove fields, you have to re-run the wizard for any pages you
created that interface with the wizard generated code.

I think you would be much better off in the long run, to learning how to
hand code your own ASP, then you would be in a much better position to
handle any special requirements that may come along, which may not be
possible to do with the database component that has limitation.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

Thomas, yes this does work.

But the DIW has comments in the add/edit/delete pages which advises you
against using such methods as it would "break" the pages. Tells you not to
use the Database Results Wizard. Doesn't this update do exactly that? And
when using it, it doesn't update all the pages associated with it. This why
I was suggesting a wizard in conjunction with DIW that would allow for
future Modificats.