--- Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I solved my question about groups. If you > choose "Select Group" then > the query builder still funtions. If you choose > "edit group" it disables the > query builder. >
Thanks for sharing this piece of information. I'll look into group edit mode and possibly allowing the query builder to work. > My new question: > > What does it mean if you choose "update data after > editing" and there are > radio buttons below and you can choose various > formats for the text. It will > allow me to choose one say "plain text" but the next > time I look at it the > choices will be grayed out. > The idea is to let you save the content of the field as plain text, or save the htmlText or rtfText or unicodeText of the field ; thus allowing you to store styled text in a back-end database. > Sometimes they will not disable and then if I choose > "update" after changing > the text in the field I will get an error that says > "update failed" and > shows the query that was attempted. > You can only pick a format when the "Update after editing" button is checked. What was in the failed query? The only thing I can think of right away is that you didn't set the primary key in the query builder. > Back to my original question. Should I just ignore > the query builder and its > functions and build everything from scratch? > While it is entirely possible to start from scratch, and this will give you full control ovr every aspect of the SQL -- but don't completely ignore the database-linked fields, as they give you a quick method to hook a series of fields up to a database. As the current maintainer of the database-linked controls, I'm open to suggestions on how to expand and enhance what is there. Jan Schenkel ~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
