I'm considering using MC for "simple" database type development.
Basically, I'm developing a CBT package where the students will
generate questionnaire results and score sheets. These need to be
e-mailed to an Assessor who'll want to collate the results, sort
them, select from them, print some simple forms and summaries and
possibly export the collected results in a form suitable for
uploading into some corporate database.
Obviously, the Assessors' Aid could be developed in a db application
such as Access or FileMaker. However, I'd like to keep all the
development within the MC fold if possible. In this case I'd end up
designing some pseudo-db files which I'd access using 'read', 'write'
and seek. I'm not thinking in terms of using cards-for-records (in
the style of the old HyperCard 'databases'), but of keeping the data
in text and/or binary files and showing them through an MC interface.
Anyone got any advice about this idea, what are the practical limits
for this approach, am I mad to be thinking about it??
Cheers
Peter
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Peter Reid
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