RE: How to architect question: custom fields

2007-06-25 Thread Eric J. Hoffman
Subject: Re: How to architect question: custom fields I can tell you what we have done when faced with a similar problem, maybe it will help you out. We create a table that holds the question, client id, and field type (select, numeric, text, etc.). There is another table that will store

Re: How to architect question: custom fields

2007-06-24 Thread Tanjible Developer
I can tell you what we have done when faced with a similar problem, maybe it will help you out. We create a table that holds the question, client id, and field type (select, numeric, text, etc.). There is another table that will store the values if a field is select type, we call this the lookup

Re: How to architect question: custom fields

2007-06-24 Thread Scott Weikert
I've got a similar setup in my system. This may not be the BEST way to do it, but it works fine for me. For any given entity, I have a main data table, that always has the same fields. I also create a custom data table associated with that main entity table. The table names are similar, i.e.