Re: design question - forms as meta-data to a model

On Jun 6, 5:23 am, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > >  - I've got a model that defines "submissions", which are incoming > messages from HTML forms on various websites and are fielded by admins >  - each submission has a bunch of basic information related to the > submission

Re: design question - forms as meta-data to a model

In the SQL world, you would probably store each form field value for each submission as a row (or the entire form submission in a single field, serialized to some known form; some DBs natively have an XML field which might be useful). In the noSQL world, however, this kind of situation is easier

Re: design question - forms as meta-data to a model

On Sunday, June 6, 2010, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jason Beaudoin >> wrote: >>> Silence usually implies some key piece of

Re: design question - forms as meta-data to a model

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jason Beaudoin > wrote: >> Silence usually implies some key piece of documentation was missed, or >> was this just lost amongst more interesting posts?

Re: design question - forms as meta-data to a model

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > Silence usually implies some key piece of documentation was missed, or > was this just lost amongst more interesting posts? :) You've missed two important alternatives: * The people who can answer your question

Re: design question - forms as meta-data to a model

Silence usually implies some key piece of documentation was missed, or was this just lost amongst more interesting posts? :) On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > Hi, > > I've a situation where the following functionality is desirable.. > >  - one

design question - forms as meta-data to a model

Hi, I've a situation where the following functionality is desirable.. - one central model is used and interacted with by users - forms (multiple on multiple sites, pick a number for each.. 5 or 50, doesn't matter) are submitted by anonymous users and associated with this central model.. so