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Product Comparison Dbase Creation

8/13/2004 3:27:50 PM
ASPRunnerPro General questions
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We're trying to set up an Access dbase, read-only for users through the web, that would compare features within our product sets and also with those of other manufacturers'. I'm wondering how difficult/time-consuming it would be--I'm assuming it's even possible--to customize the ASPRunner's search features...for instance, instead of having the Advanced Search screen, could we provide a button for "All Products with X Feature," or "All Products with Y Feature," or "All with X and Y."
I'm not by any means an ASP guru--though I can tweak existing script with the best, or worst, of them--which is why this question comes up (and for that matter why ASPRunner in the first place). I do like the program's interface, and it'll sure as heck save a lot of time, but I'm just not sure how customizable things are without having, essentially, to learn ASP myself.
The dbase itself, by the way, is Access 2003; with which, again, I'm not a guru, so maybe I'm overlooking some obvious way of doing this within Access that could then be simply ASP'd by the Runner.
Any/all assistance is much appreciated!

Sergey Kornilov admin 8/28/2004

James,
thank you for your interest in ASPRunner!
I'm afraid ASPRunner won't help to achieve this. This tool is designed to create complete Web interface for your database. Comparing product sets is something different and needs to be implemented manually.

501073 9/16/2004

While on one screen ASPRUNNER could not do what you are asking,
HOWEVER you can set up a query for each possibility and access the query in ASPRUNNER like a table. Then you just have a menu that allows user to select the appropriate list screen for the comparison they want.
Just a thought