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Misc weirdness and queries
1/ When going into a post to modify it one of the fields resets itself to default value (no entry at all). I wonder why. Irritating as it is a field that needs a value to enter.

2/ Is it possible to select several values from a listbox?

3/ Is it possible to make DBMAN automatically send a mail to a person or a list of persons when a new post is added?

4/ What kind of traffic can DBMan handle? ON the scale of 0 to /.-ed.

C.

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1/ When going into a post to modify it one of the fields resets itself to default value (no entry at all). I wonder why. Irritating as it is a field that needs a value to enter.
Are you using the autogenerate feature? If not, you could have the field name misspelled on your form.

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2/ Is it possible to select several values from a listbox?
Yes. There are many discussions of this in the DBMan Customization forum.

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3/ Is it possible to make DBMAN automatically send a mail to a person or a list of persons when a new post is added?
Ditto above.

After I finish answering the current questions, I'll make new FAQs about both of these.

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4/ What kind of traffic can DBMan handle? ON the scale of 0 to /.-ed.
The only limitation I know of within the script is that, after the .db file reaches about 1M, it starts to slow down. From what others have said on the forum, it will continue to work, but at a slower pace, up to a file size of 2M. After that, it becomes so slow that browsers time out before searches are returned.

JPD
http://www.jpdeni.com/dbman/
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I changed the name on the form but it still goes back to --- when opened for modification. And if the field is misspelle on the form should it find it data variables? It does apparently.

As for speed it looks as if the database may stay well under 1 M for a good time to come.

C.



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Can you post the code you're using to build the select field?

As for your other questions, I finally got those FAQs written. The one for building a multiple select field is at http://www.jpdeni.com/...Mods/mult_select.txt and the one for sending an email after a record is added is at http://www.jpdeni.com/.../email_after_add.txt.



JPD
http://www.jpdeni.com/dbman/
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Thanks, the second one was easy. The first, I'll have another look at.