Mark Stanton wrote:
> Hi both,
>
> Yes, I'm still here reading.
> I hadn't particularly thought of it as an issue impacting on the end
> user's ability ("right"?) to design the ui, I thought it was me doing
> that not them. It was more about the linked data issue and therefore
> about designing so that cancelling an editing session really cancels
> all the changes made in that session.
>
> Seems to me the views here cause the problem (though being a good
> idea from another perspective of course), how do different views of
> similar data communicate, particularly when they're buffered, without
> changing the underlying data store?
>
> Yes, it makes for a messy ui implementation, and that was why I
> started wondering about it, on the basis that often a design becoming
> messy is a sign that it's going the wrong way. Unless of course,
> it's just "real life" being messy, as usual.
>
> More of the problem seems to (me to) be that SQL doesn't work on
> buffered or "local" (to the data environment) data, but the tables on
> disk, so if I've got a clutch of rows to be added as a result of a
> users click I either can't do that, or I have to compromise the
> local, buffered, data, and save data to a "real" file.
>
> Sounds like picking it apart into separate screens *is* the way to
> go, because that gives at least some indication of why some data has
> been committed and other data hasn't.
>
> Mark Stanton
> One small step for mankind...
>
Don't forget that you can use WITH BUFFERING in your SQL now to reflect
the buffered changes!
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Michael J. Babcock, MCP
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