Would it be appropriate then to recommend
that Documentation and Help Topics be a “downloable Update”
Adam and David could, upon verification on
their end that a Doc item should be changed, make that change to a “working
copy” of the Doc’s and then make that file downloadable for self-installation/update
to a user’s Plum IDE.
This way as “simple” issues,
but bottlenecks never-the-less, in the Documentation come up, they can be “fixed”
right away so all past, present, and future users of Plum will benefit.
Since Adam and David will control the “working file” for the Docs
they in a sense are in control of the Help we rely on within the application.
Dan Kaufman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Fleitz
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:26 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [plum] How to Add a
New Table
This is a known bug I
reported a couple months ago. You are supposed to be able to create a
table manually, without using synchronize, You can actually do this, but
the validation messages make it painful. The trick is to create the
table, click off on another node, come back and right click to add a new
column, click off again. click on the table and add the NewColumn field as the
primary key. Once you do this, you should be able to avoid error messages
and rename the column to whatever your primary key field is. Then you can
add additional columns, relations etc. fine after that.
It's ugly to do, but
doable. I am sure this will be on the list for 1.1 fixes.
From:
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On Behalf Of Tim Blankenship
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:07 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [plum] How to Add a
New Table
I
agree. Maybe send Adam/David a request to clirify the documentation about
adding tables.
On 5/16/05, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
That's exactly what I
ended up doing. But the Plum Help docs sure don't seem to make that
clear. In re-reading the Help on New Table it does say "…adds
a new table to your project…" So I would guess then that
project in this sentence means your *.Plum project and NOT your "what you
are working on as is commonly referred to as a project"
Assuming that this is in
fact the case, I would recommend that the Help docs at this point state
(something like) "Before selecting New Table from the Database node you
must first have added/created the table in your database. The database
node Right-Click menu ONLY adds an existing database table to your Plum project
file."
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Tim Blankenship
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:50
PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [plum] How to Add a
New Table
I don't think this
feature works as you intend it to. I beleive the table has to exist already in
the database.
Create the table/columns etc on the database and synchronize the db.
On 5/16/05, Dan
< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
wrote:
How do you Add a New Table to your database from the
Plum IDE?
In Plum IDE, I right-click on the Database node
This gives me a NewTable form
I enter the Table Name
The Singular and Plural Labels
But then ???
There are two boxes for the Primary Key, but are
empty.
I righ-click on "New Table" in the nodes
tree and select New Column and get
"You must choose at least one column for this
table's primary key. Click OK to return to the form and correct the erro, or
click Cancel to cancel your changes."
Don't know how to proceed ??? Can't add anything to
the NewTable form and can't Right-Click to add a new column.
Can anyone help?
Dan Kaufman
An Elephant Never Forgets
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Tim Blankenship
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