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Help me decide on purchase decision.

 		12/16/2005 14:29:43
ASPRunnerPro General questions
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 rhalbhub author

While I really like ASP Runner my immediate concern is that I am limited to just making flat grids with no logic ability..... like counts and summaries and relationships with other tables....
This is just an example:

What if I wanted an employee table with names, titles, etc?
and
another table with projects etc...
Could I make something perhaps that would display a grid of employees and their total projects assigned to them etc?
I'm just not seeing what you can do with ASP Runner past the simple output page that is searchable/editable etc. Can you have relationships with other tables? Maybe I am missing something.
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Also on a side note when I run ASP Runner on a 2003 Server it does not detect IIS even though it is fully running and has many virtual directories. I have to build the code on a laptop and then try it on the web server.
Sergey Kornilov admin 12/16/2005

Hi,
please try Master-Detail feature for this.
Open Datasource table tab in ASPRunnerPro, select your Projects table and choose Master table - Employees.

Then select fields that connect Employee and Projects tables as primary and foreign keys.
You can see an example of Master-Detail relationship in Livedemo built with ASPRunner.

http://www.xlinesoft.com/asprunnerpro/live...demo1/login.asp
Open Orderstable there and click Order details link.

Also on a side note when I run ASP Runner on a 2003 Server it does not detect IIS even though it is fully running and has many virtual directories. I have to build the code on a laptop and then try it on the web server.


Thank you for pointing me to this issue. We'll check it out.
However you don't need IIS to build the code. Just build the pages to any directory and copy them to your Web folder manually. Then put the URL of your web folder into browser address box.
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 		rhalbhub author 12/19/2005

Thanks for the information I will look at that.
I'm wondering is how difficult is it to get a different look and feel or have the dbase appear in a table instead of the entire page? I looked at the template editor and it looked very complicated.
Also, when adding data if you go outside the bounds of the data type it displays an unfriendly error page. In example say I have a char(3) and I add 4 chars in the entry field and hit SAVE, the error page is generated instead of something more friendly to a user. Can a generic error message page be produced?
Sergey Kornilov admin 12/20/2005

Could you point me to sample page where database appears in a table? I can help you implementing this using template editor.
There are thousand of error messages that databases produce. Overwriting error messages to make them user-friendly is virtually impossible. In your example you can set maximum length of field to accept three characters only which is the way to go. This can be done on the Formatting tab in ASPRunnerPro.