Jeff,
Since PLUM uses qForms, I was wondering if there is an elegant way for us to
manually invoke qForms functionality on a PLUM form. Now I think I read some
where in the docs or an email that PLUM uses a modified form of qForms or a
subset of qForms, not sure of the exact terminology used, but I wonder if
that means functionality was chopped out of the lib. If I get time tonight I
do a winDiff of the lib. I came across an area recently myself where I was
wondering the same thing.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Fleitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [plum] Filtered Select - brainfart morning
Hi Tim,
It seems to me that you would want to normalize your database, so I would
go with separate tables. Using Plum shouldn't influence db design issues,
IMO.
On the question of the forms, are you planning on putting 2 select menus
on one form, or on two separate forms (ManufacturerAddForm, ModelAddform)
for instance?
cf_FilteredSelect doesn't support chaining like that at this time,
although I asked for it. Maybe Adam and David will consider it for v 1.1.
If you are going for the former option, you will have to do something like
use Nate Weiss' CF_TwoSelectsRelated tag, bracketed between a
<cf_DisplayExtraFormContent> tag pair. I did this on a project last year,
and had to use custom queries to drive it. qForms supports populating
multiple selects, also, so that is another option. But no native way in
Plum to popluate one select dymanically from another at this point.
HTH,
Jeff
Tim Blankenship wrote:
Alright I know I should be ashamed, well I am, I need a little help.
What I want to do is have a form that lists some info on server
hardware that has a filtered select list on it.Basically I want to
choose a manufacturer (HP, IBM, Dell...) and when I choose the
manufacturer the Models are populated for the specific Manufacturer.
Example I choose HP in a select menu the next select menu is populated
with Proliant 123, Proliant 234, Proliant 345. So inturn what is the
best method for the DB design, a single table like
ID, man_ID, manufacturer, mod_id, model or should I split them
Manufacturer table
man_id, manufacturer
Model table
mod_id, model, man_id
I know this is somewhat simple but I am just having a brainfart this
morning.
For testing and client approval I am making it in Access but
eventually I will recreate this in Oracle.
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