Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Steven Sprouse
I posted the other day about creating school pages and all of you were extremely helpful. Thank you! I have another issue today. I'm trying to create a department directory where we list the six main divisions and then indented a little bit are the departments that fall under that division

Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Charlie Griefer
http://tutorial150.easycfm.com/ (text was still in my clipboard from pasting it to another thread not more than 5 minutes ago) :) On 7/21/06, Steven Sprouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted the other day about creating school pages and all of you were extremely helpful. Thank you! I have

RE: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Ryan, Terrence
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Steven Sprouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Creating an indented department directory I posted the other day about creating school pages and all of you were extremely

Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Steven Sprouse
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Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Steven Sprouse
Charlie, so in my case, the Division would be the genre, the Department would be the author, and the sub-department would be the book name, correct? In designing my table then, where the genre was entered in the book table, would I have to write out each division name or should I replace

Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Charlie Griefer
if there's a one-to-many relationship between Divisions and Departments (one Division has many Departments), it's generally considered good form to have two tables...one for Division and one for Department), where DivisionID is a primary key in the Division table, and a foreign key in the

Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Steven Sprouse
Okay, so I understand the Division and Departments ID thing. Now, what if there is a sub-department of a department? For example: We have a division of Instruction...under that division we have a department of Curriculum Instruction. Under the CI department we have sub-departments like

Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Charlie Griefer
sub-departments might bet their own table. depends. are sub-departments also departments in and of themselves (e.g. would a sub-department be directly under a division? or only under another department)? if it's the latter, then i would suggest a sub-department table. If it's the former, then

Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Steven Sprouse
Could I do this... In my Departments table create a field that is called SubDept and have it be either yes or no and another field called SubDeptID and allow null values so if a dept isn't a sub-department of something it stays blank, but if it is it will have a number that corresponds to the

Re: Creating an indented department directory

2006-07-21 Thread Charlie Griefer
depends...are sub-departments actually departments in and of themselves? would a department ever be beneath a division as well as beneath another department? if they are truly sub-departments, then i'd break them out into a sub-department table. no need to get overly complex. On 7/21/06,