Hello there!
Before some months when I started with a lot of enthusiasm working with Import.pl, I could not. Tha that moment Editor.cgi was not yet born. So I had a lot of problems and I kept on writing messages. It was you who commented as a reaction, which I do not forget, may be, that Links SQL is not for novices!
I agree.
Later Editor.cgi came out. The help only says, well, phooh, it will import and export your data. Thats all!!! How, what, consenquences, and other things nothing more. Look at how a good creation is presented. Its a really good program. So wher are the problems? I could not import my database at that time because the Access hatched DATETIME instead of DATE. Alex did not help. Now he has answered that I should change the format in my database field of Access into a text field instead of date. Now those dates are in the format of DD.MM.YYYY (Anyone can check it out about the possibilities of export functions/Specifications of Access) and by changing them into text format I will have to experiment it out again, as to how the products of this guy Gates hatches the Date format out, and come back to the Board and tell, Oh it did not work.
Where are the problems?
Links SQL produces Kilometer Long listings of Categories. As you rightly commented as Novice as I am, it is ofcourse a mind blowing problem for me to handle this and may be bring a solution. Think of 10,000 categories and the length of the pop-ups. Further Alternate Categories. Therefore Categories gerenator listing must do it twice producing the Kilometer long listing. Against this there are many logical counter arguments of not using pop-ups at all. This one can achieve by other methods like geting categories from the Location field of the browser, or however one may put it, etc.
Now I inserted 250 categories. It was calculating statistics for a long time in comparision to building. Ofcourse it takes time. Now if I have 10,000 categories (Not as an extreme situation) how long it takes to calculate stats? Thats not Alexes fault. So if I do not want to get it calculate, how do I do it?
There are many things like this. That does not meat Links SQL is a bad program. Actually I do not also beleive the betas from Alex as betas. They are robust program scripts.
Lastly I was expecting a message (and a discussion of a similar manner) like yours.
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rajani