hi, thanks for your reply!
well there are various things and working with DBMan SQL every minute new things are coming up.
I think a must is an understandable and useable documentation of all functions and tags.
See my new post here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=226211
The provided documentation is very nice but what I wrote in my posting (link above) is missing and as I think extremly neccessary!
My other point is the usability of the admin. To tell all things I am missing or I dont't like would take to much time .
But an example:
In Relationships->Queries->Listings you have your defined queries in a drop down menu showing just the Name you gave them but not the function of the query itself.
I think it would be quite better to have a table of queries instead of a dropdown-menu showing the query-function name and an sql select-tag to have a quick look what the query does.
Another thing is that you can't really work with the User-Tables. I know that this is a thing of how DBMan is designed but as I have some knowledge in programming SQL-applications it is hard for me to give things out of my hand.
For example I wanted to blow up the user-table to add things like address, phone-number,etc. I added this via the table properties-function. But in the form generated by DBMan SQL the added columns are not displayed. I still didn't find out how to manage this.
Also I didn't found out how to search and display data of the user-table.
Another thing is building Relationships. For me things would be much clearer if the user-table would be integrated so that you would be able to (visibly) setup relations like
USER_TABLE(userid_column)=>STORES_TABLE(owner_column)
STORES_TABLE(storeID_column)=>PRODUCTS_TABLE=>(ownedByStore_column)
Regards,
Manu
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well there are various things and working with DBMan SQL every minute new things are coming up.
I think a must is an understandable and useable documentation of all functions and tags.
See my new post here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=226211
The provided documentation is very nice but what I wrote in my posting (link above) is missing and as I think extremly neccessary!
My other point is the usability of the admin. To tell all things I am missing or I dont't like would take to much time .
But an example:
In Relationships->Queries->Listings you have your defined queries in a drop down menu showing just the Name you gave them but not the function of the query itself.
I think it would be quite better to have a table of queries instead of a dropdown-menu showing the query-function name and an sql select-tag to have a quick look what the query does.
Another thing is that you can't really work with the User-Tables. I know that this is a thing of how DBMan is designed but as I have some knowledge in programming SQL-applications it is hard for me to give things out of my hand.
For example I wanted to blow up the user-table to add things like address, phone-number,etc. I added this via the table properties-function. But in the form generated by DBMan SQL the added columns are not displayed. I still didn't find out how to manage this.
Also I didn't found out how to search and display data of the user-table.
Another thing is building Relationships. For me things would be much clearer if the user-table would be integrated so that you would be able to (visibly) setup relations like
USER_TABLE(userid_column)=>STORES_TABLE(owner_column)
STORES_TABLE(storeID_column)=>PRODUCTS_TABLE=>(ownedByStore_column)
Regards,
Manu
Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.
