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Alex,

What about a def editor, that edits the SQL.mysql file (so that the changes are system wide (save to a SQL.custom file)

That way, a user can customize the fileds during setup, add the weights and validations, or just go with the defaults.

Later editing, will make the changes to the file, but will issue ALTER commands where possible, DROP/CREATE otherwise, and could get really fancy backing up, and re-importing data after a change.

Rather than try to work within the existing system, make it another setup/admin feature.

Since most people who are running their own servers, or who set it up themselves install it a few dozen times <G>.... it makes a lot of sense to do it this way.

That way, during a "resync" there's a local profile to read for defaults.



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Yes, we really need to store the .def info that can't be pulled from the database somewhere. I'll look at saving it to a file and then adding either into editor.cgi, or a new program a way to access/retrieve it.

Cheers,

Alex