Re: Adding content advice needed

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 20146
interpreted = N
texte = My first shot at a solution would be by asking myself, if i can limit theways of answertypes......You can make the administrator choose how many fields he/she needs toanswer the question, like if they need from 1-10 graphics etc.....Then you can create another database where you use the SKU of thequestion.db for an fields.dbAfter that you can make a quite complex template file, that find how manyfields is used by the answer, and with showif and hideif statements you candesign your table.This will need no HTML experience of the admin, only a bit of thinkingabout how to use the fields, and how many fields to use.... Which i guessis a question about how good your documentation is.Hope that helped you/Martin>Hi everyone,>>I am struggling with a feature I want to add to a site I am developing.>The site has a question and answer type section called glad you asked.>People can email a township administrator a question like, Why are our>taxes so high? and the administrator will post a response to questions>on the web site.>>I have this part down!>>Here is where I am not so sure what the best way to proceed is.>>Some of the answers require tables. Like for showing comparative figures>and such that need to be tabled together to make sense. I am trying to>figure out a way around having the administrator writing HTML and posting>that. The posts are just in a text field in a form and this goes into the>.db. I have posted HTML tags and they work fine. I am using a conversion>database to change ^ into

for breaks in the text. That is not a hard>one to teach, but I am not too happy about them posting HTML. I don't>think the person who is going to be maintaining this will take the time>to learn it enough to make it work with these forms.>>If the answers are simple - no problem. But if they require any special>formatting my solution (as it stands) falls apart without knowing HTML.>>What can I do? I would appreciate any responses and advice.>>Thanks,>>Charles>>_______________________________________________________________>Charles Kline ckline@macsultants.com>>>MacSultants>Professional Solutions for Computer SystemsKonsulentfirmaet Bech.dkDynamic HTML, WebDNA programming, Lasso & Filemaker Pro developement Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Adding content advice needed (Martin Gertz Bech 1998) Re: Adding content advice needed (Dave MacLeay 1998) Adding content advice needed (charles kline 1998)

My first shot at a solution would be by asking myself, if i can limit theways of answertypes......You can make the administrator choose how many fields he/she needs toanswer the question, like if they need from 1-10 graphics etc.....Then you can create another database where you use the SKU of thequestion.db for an fields.dbAfter that you can make a quite complex template file, that find how manyfields is used by the answer, and with showif and hideif statements you candesign your table.This will need no HTML experience of the admin, only a bit of thinkingabout how to use the fields, and how many fields to use.... Which i guessis a question about how good your documentation is.Hope that helped you/Martin>Hi everyone,>>I am struggling with a feature I want to add to a site I am developing.>The site has a question and answer type section called glad you asked.>People can email a township administrator a question like, Why are our>taxes so high? and the administrator will post a response to questions>on the web site.>>I have this part down!>>Here is where I am not so sure what the best way to proceed is.>>Some of the answers require tables. Like for showing comparative figures>and such that need to be tabled together to make sense. I am trying to>figure out a way around having the administrator writing HTML and posting>that. The posts are just in a text field in a form and this goes into the>.db. I have posted HTML tags and they work fine. I am using a conversion>database to change ^ into

for breaks in the text. That is not a hard>one to teach, but I am not too happy about them posting HTML. I don't>think the person who is going to be maintaining this will take the time>to learn it enough to make it work with these forms.>>If the answers are simple - no problem. But if they require any special>formatting my solution (as it stands) falls apart without knowing HTML.>>What can I do? I would appreciate any responses and advice.>>Thanks,>>Charles>>_______________________________________________________________>Charles Kline ckline@macsultants.com>>>MacSultants>Professional Solutions for Computer SystemsKonsulentfirmaet Bech.dkDynamic HTML, WebDNA programming, Lasso & Filemaker Pro developement Martin Gertz Bech

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