Re: form re-use

[Lee Borkman]

Sorry Jeff,   I sure wasn't meaning any criticism of Hal's methods at all.  I'm just saying that I have seen him use CF_QuerySim, and I have also seen him use a simple zero-row SQL query.  I like them both - I think they are both very sweet. I had never seen the SQL idea before, and I thought that people might find it interesting - I know that I sure did - but I would still recommend the CF_QuerySim method, as I'm sure Hal would too.  The reason I would recommend the CF_QuerySim is that that tag has so many other great uses, so why not leap into it and get acquainted.   Sorry if there was some misunderstanding.  I certainly wasn't trying to attack a straw man, Jeff - not only was there no straw man, but there was no attack either.  Hal's de Man!   LeeBB ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Peters   On 23 May 2002 at 19:27, Lee Borkman wrote: Erm, Hal has been recommending an empty QuerySim-generated recordset for form reuse for, let's see, close to a year now.  Seems like a straw-man to say he does something else and then recommend the very technique he uses as a better alternative. FWIW, - Jeff > > Hi Kay, > > It's been a pretty vexed issue within Fusebox for a while. Many of us used Steve's > CF_ReuseForm tag,but it was always a little strange, although the concept was great. Patrick > went with a set of CFPARAM statements, etc, etc. > > I think that the best method around now is to write your form so that expects to have values for > each field. Then for a form of "new" data, simply run CF_QuerySim to create an empty > recordset with the appropriate columns, etc, and you can use the same form fuse without any > changes. I won't use the word "elegant" because that's something of a four-letter word around > here, but it's quite pretty anyway. > > I have also seen Hal use a SQL select with a false condition in the WHERE clause to return an > empty recordset. That is pretty cute too. Anyway, I'd go with CF_QuerySim. That tag has many > other uses, so why not get used to it? ;-) > > Have fun, > LeeBB > ----- Original Message ----- > >     From: Kay Smoljak > > Hi all, > > Over my last couple of projects, I have tried a couple of different ways > to resuse forms (ie a single fuseaction for add or edit product, for > example). I'm not really happy with any of them. Now I'm about to start > a new large project, and I want it to be the bestest ever :) Does anyone > have any *really elegant* methods for reusing forms that they would like > to share? > > Kay. ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================