Generating 'What's Related'

2002-11-11 Thread Jillian Carroll
I'm having a hard time visualizing what I need to do to make this an elegant solution... so I'm hoping somebody out there has done this and can give me some insight. What I want to do is this: I have a database of tools, and any 1 tool may be associated with a group of tools (also in the database

Re: Generating 'What's Related'

2002-11-11 Thread Gyrus
- Original Message - From: "Jillian Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As a technician, you pull up the wrench used for removing alternators from a > 1997 Ford Taurus. When you pull up this wrench, you also see a list of > 'related tools' that are also used/required for removing alternators fr

Re: Generating 'What's Related'

2002-11-11 Thread Dick Applebaum
I have done something somewhat similar with a site where, while drill-down browsing the database, if you saw something of interest, you could mark or "Clip it" for detail review later -- kinda' like circling adds in a newspaper. In each level of the drill-down, there is a checkbox before ea

RE: Generating 'What's Related'

2002-11-11 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Form 2 - Enter/Update Tool Attribute and select from list of other tools those that are related. Hope this helps, Andy -Original Message- From: Jillian Carroll [mailto:jillian@;koskie.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:07 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Generating 'W

Re: Generating 'What's Related'

2002-11-11 Thread Robert Polickoski
Jillian, It depends on how the data is tructured in the database, i.e. how do you identify whether or not a tool is used in the removal of an alternator in a 1997 Ford Taurus. This is what relational databases were designed for. But the table structure needs to be set up, or normalized, for

Re: Generating 'What's Related'

2002-11-11 Thread Fregas
vember 11, 2002 11:06 AM Subject: Generating 'What's Related' > I'm having a hard time visualizing what I need to do to make this an elegant > solution... so I'm hoping somebody out there has done this and can give me > some insight. > > What I want to do i

RE: Generating 'What's Related'

2002-11-11 Thread Jillian Carroll
I guess it's mostly the admin tool that I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around. -Original Message- From: Fregas [mailto:lists@;mediaartisans.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generating 'What's Related' Are you