God, I hope my earlier message didn't sound terse. I re-read it this morning and thought that some might construe it to be terse, so I thought I would follow up.
Just to elaborate a little further about limitations, there are a few other things that Plum won't handle by design, in order to make the rest of Plum -- the mainstream things -- either easier to understand and maintain in the generated code or possible in the first place. For example, filtered selects and choosers require that certain keys in related tables be simple rather than compound (i.e., single-column rather than multi-column). This isn't always going to be the case with everyone's database (it certainly wasn't on the most recent Plum project I did), so we'll have to handle those relationships using handcrafted code and controls, but the rest of the application can be straight Plum. Remember that Plum is a set of tools you use to craft an application from beginning to end, but it isn't the only tool you'll use along the way, and it doesn't entirely replace handcrafting. If any of Plum's limitations are of particular concern, please let us know so we can discuss it for the next release. We really do discuss each and every concern thoroughly and give each full weight come decision time. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com Download Plum and other cool development tools, and get advanced intensive Master-level training: * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers * ColdFusion MX Master Class * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [plum] Space in table name error > Plum can't handle tables with spaces in their names. > > I know you're probably thinking that this is a really bad idea, but there > are important reasons why we do this on purpose. In order to handle tables > and columns with spaces in their names, Plum's code generator would have to > radically change and become much more difficult to manage. Trust me on > this: some of Plum's ancestor code has been working in one way or another > for over four years, and we're very familiar with it. If you only knew what > it took to make things happen in Plum, you'd be amazed. > > Yes, spaces in table and column names is a really bad idea and yes, it > happens in the real world anyway, but Plum is most likely never going to > handle spaces in table or column names. > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > Member of Team Macromedia > http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com > > Download Plum and other cool development tools, > and get advanced intensive Master-level training: > > * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers > * ColdFusion MX Master Class > * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leonid Kapel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:01 PM > Subject: [plum] Space in table name error > > > Hi Adam/David, > > > > One of my tables in the database is called 'Telephone Directory'. > Whenever I use 'Synchronize with Database...' option, PLUM does not see > this table. I tried to enter it manually, and PLUM complained about > invalid table name. You should allow spaces in table names, since SQL > Server does allow them. > > > > Regards, > > > > Leonid > > > > ********************************************************************** > You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change > your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: > > http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm > ********************************************************************** > ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm **********************************************************************
