Re: Forms 5.0 Master/Detail blocks

Russ Lister wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 May 1998 12:59:48 -0700, czetie_at_nospamus.oracle.com wrote:
> >The DML source is the name of the Table you want to perform all
> >DML on. It works just like the Table Name property did in 4.5,
> >except that it is not used for Query.
>
> I'm new to Dev2k, so I haven't used 4.5.
>
> I want to be able to present a single form for
> query-by-example over several tables (which the FROM query does very
> well) and to be able to modify the active record on the same form
> (like a regular table based block with child relationship blocks).
>
> It's starting to look like I will have to code procedures to
> perform the DML across multiple tables.

Well, there are other ways to do this but we're getting beyond the scope of what I could address on a newsgroup posting! I'm sure the folks can recommend some excellent books that will help you. For what I hope are obvious reasons (see my address!) I try to refrain from recommendations. Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 22:33:04 CEST