Re: WebDB opinions ?

Hi.

You mean other than using before-insert triggers or default column values?

I'm pretty certain you can set default values form fields as well, although I haven't tried using functions for default values (they may have to be literals).

-John

H. John C. Hopkins
Gainesville, FL

"Adam Lipscombe" <alipscombe_at_ingenta.com> wrote in message news:Fr5Lnn.Gxy_at_bath.ac.uk...
> Folks,
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> I am interested in hearing opinions on WebDB....
>
> I have been using v2.1 to produce some simple reports and forms to provide
> administrator functionality on an existing database. Simple things like
> adding, modifying and deleting users etc.
>
> WebDB does not seem to have anywhere near enough functionality.....
> For example it seems impossible when doing a form "insert" to populate
> columns in a table with programmatically set (i.e. no user interaction)
> values such as the current time and user name.
>
> I would be grateful if anyone who has successfully used this tool to
produce
> forms that create rows with some user enetered data and some
auto-generated
> data could share their experiences...
> Any good tutorials or learning resources?
>
>
> Thanks - Adam
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Received on Thu Mar 09 2000 - 20:24:37 CST