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Bob Worsley
11-Apr-2007, 07:24 AM
Just getting started with Ajax, as evidenced my my recent postings. So far
I've gotten most everything to work, but just struggled through something
that I have to ask about. I'm attempting to build a Web version of a long
existing Windows program, with data files that have been around for over 15
years with numerous customers using them.

The main file has numerous code fields that are not related to their
coresponding lookup file. The only way that I could get such a lookup to
work with WebApp/Ajax was to add a relationship from the main file to the
lookup, and then voila! it worked. Before establishing the relationship the
asp page told me it didn't recognize the lookup table.

So my question is for backward compatibility, how could I get such to work
without having to establish many many such relationships? Is there another
way to code the lookup? I tried making the lookup file a foreign file in
the main file but that of course didn't work.
Bob

Harm Wibier
11-Apr-2007, 05:09 PM
Hello Bob,

There is no "default" support for this situations (yet). I believe it is
possible to create this kind of lookups using custom ajax code. There were
already plans for creating an example for this kinds of relations. If this
is available I will make sure you will get them!
--
Regards,


Harm Wibier
Data Access Europe B.V.
http://www.dataaccess.nl/

"Bob Worsley" <rworsley@choosebroadspire.com> wrote in message
news:YXJwiRDfHHA.4972@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Just getting started with Ajax, as evidenced my my recent postings. So
> far I've gotten most everything to work, but just struggled through
> something that I have to ask about. I'm attempting to build a Web version
> of a long existing Windows program, with data files that have been around
> for over 15 years with numerous customers using them.
>
> The main file has numerous code fields that are not related to their
> coresponding lookup file. The only way that I could get such a lookup to
> work with WebApp/Ajax was to add a relationship from the main file to the
> lookup, and then voila! it worked. Before establishing the relationship
> the asp page told me it didn't recognize the lookup table.
>
> So my question is for backward compatibility, how could I get such to work
> without having to establish many many such relationships? Is there
> another way to code the lookup? I tried making the lookup file a foreign
> file in the main file but that of course didn't work.
> Bob
>

Bob Worsley
11-Apr-2007, 07:06 PM
I'm not at that stage in my learning and development, so I can wait.
Thanks. BTW, thanks for the Firefox add-ons, they look extremely helpful.
Bob

"Harm Wibier" <harm.wibier@dataaccess.nl> wrote in message
news:S3xkWYIfHHA.5152@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Hello Bob,
>
> There is no "default" support for this situations (yet). I believe it is
> possible to create this kind of lookups using custom ajax code. There were
> already plans for creating an example for this kinds of relations. If this
> is available I will make sure you will get them!
> --
> Regards,
>
>
> Harm Wibier
> Data Access Europe B.V.
> http://www.dataaccess.nl/
>
> "Bob Worsley" <rworsley@choosebroadspire.com> wrote in message
> news:YXJwiRDfHHA.4972@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> > Just getting started with Ajax, as evidenced my my recent postings. So
> > far I've gotten most everything to work, but just struggled through
> > something that I have to ask about. I'm attempting to build a Web
version
> > of a long existing Windows program, with data files that have been
around
> > for over 15 years with numerous customers using them.
> >
> > The main file has numerous code fields that are not related to their
> > coresponding lookup file. The only way that I could get such a lookup
to
> > work with WebApp/Ajax was to add a relationship from the main file to
the
> > lookup, and then voila! it worked. Before establishing the relationship
> > the asp page told me it didn't recognize the lookup table.
> >
> > So my question is for backward compatibility, how could I get such to
work
> > without having to establish many many such relationships? Is there
> > another way to code the lookup? I tried making the lookup file a
foreign
> > file in the main file but that of course didn't work.
> > Bob
> >
>
>
>