OK, well I managed to get it to work after lots of digging.

One thing I am unsure about is the question of associations.  

For a start at a programming level you are working with an attribute called
map-key, finding that this relates to an Association on a Content item is
not exactly intuitive.

Then I found that it was unclear whether you have to associate the 
"parent item" (WebStoreContent in this case) with the new item, or the new
item with WebStoreContent, or both?  If you look in the Association page there 
are two buttons at the top, Create New and Create New Association, they both 
seem to do the same thing and there is only one button (Create) at the bottom
of the form.

Then there are two list, the "Edit Content Association For:...." list and
under that the "List Association To:..." list.  It is totally unclear what
these two lists are, and how you get things onto them - at least when you
first start.

This brings me to a suggestion.  These data entry forms are very bare,
they really do not help you to use them.  There are no tooltips to provide
indications of what the fields do. They are also no indications (until you 
get an SQL error message in the teeth telling that a required column is
not present in the INSERT) as to which fields are required.  Also given the
amount of white space on the forms, a little bit of explanatory text telling 
you what this form achieves would make things one whole heap easier for the
newcomer.

David

Reply via email to