Re: PCS Frames

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 10661
interpreted = N
texte = >>Any time this happens, you are either missing the , or the >>page is not getting sent thru WebCatalog (suffix-mapping). >It has this code, and I still get this error. > >>Frames make it hard to see what's going on, but there's nothing 'magical' >>about them that makes them different from any other HTML pages as far as >>WebCatalog is concerned. > >True, but when you are dealing with regular html you are linear, >progressing one step at a time, never allowing the user access to the >entry page again. With this scenario there is no familiar entry page, the >user is alive in the site immediately.True, more or less, but user can always use the 'Back' button ... which ruins your 'linear' html theory.Just for a point of information here, I've had users create a new classified ad using my create.tmpl. When they click the 'create' button, the [cart] number is generated and placed into the 'adNumber' field in an attempt to give each ad a unique ad number. Next, the user gets a reply.tmpl which has a 'View the ad you just created' link. When they click this link, it brings them to my results.tmpl and displays their new ad.Okay so far ...But what do they insist on doing when they want to create *another* new ad?Instead of clicking the create a new ad link that I place on the results.tmpl, they use the browser's 'Back' button - not once, but twice - to get back to the create.tmpl. This allows the user to create *another* new ad - but with the same [cart] number as in their previous ad - thereby destroying my attempt to give each ad a unique [cart] number.Yes, I know I can prevent new ads from having non-unique ad numbers by doing a [lookup] to see if the new [cart] value is already in the 'adNumber' field in the database *before* the new ad gets created ... but wouldn't it be a lot nicer (and easier) if my users would actually look at the current page and use the links on that page instead of Back'ing up to get to the same place again? :)Sincerely, Ken ------------------------------------ To leave this talk list send an email to macjordomo@smithmicro.com with BODY unsubscribe WebDNA-Talk ------------------------------------ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: PCS Frames (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  2. Re: PCS Frames-Default page is solution! (Robert Minor 1997)
  3. Re: PCS Frames-Default page is solution! (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  4. Re: PCS Frames (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  5. Re: PCS Frames (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  6. Re: PCS Frames (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  7. Re: PCS Frames (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  8. Re: PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
  9. Re: PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
  10. Re: PCS Frames (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  11. Re: PCS Frames (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  12. Re: PCS Frames (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  13. Re: PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
  14. Re: PCS Frames (Jacques VERNAY 1997)
  15. Re: PCS Frames (Ed Trefzger 1997)
  16. PCS Frames (Robert Minor 1997)
>>Any time this happens, you are either missing the , or the >>page is not getting sent thru WebCatalog (suffix-mapping). >It has this code, and I still get this error. > >>Frames make it hard to see what's going on, but there's nothing 'magical' >>about them that makes them different from any other HTML pages as far as >>WebCatalog is concerned. > >True, but when you are dealing with regular html you are linear, >progressing one step at a time, never allowing the user access to the >entry page again. With this scenario there is no familiar entry page, the >user is alive in the site immediately.True, more or less, but user can always use the 'Back' button ... which ruins your 'linear' html theory.Just for a point of information here, I've had users create a new classified ad using my create.tmpl. When they click the 'create' button, the [cart] number is generated and placed into the 'adNumber' field in an attempt to give each ad a unique ad number. Next, the user gets a reply.tmpl which has a 'View the ad you just created' link. When they click this link, it brings them to my results.tmpl and displays their new ad.Okay so far ...But what do they insist on doing when they want to create *another* new ad?Instead of clicking the create a new ad link that I place on the results.tmpl, they use the browser's 'Back' button - not once, but twice - to get back to the create.tmpl. This allows the user to create *another* new ad - but with the same [cart] number as in their previous ad - thereby destroying my attempt to give each ad a unique [cart] number.Yes, I know I can prevent new ads from having non-unique ad numbers by doing a [lookup] to see if the new [cart] value is already in the 'adNumber' field in the database *before* the new ad gets created ... but wouldn't it be a lot nicer (and easier) if my users would actually look at the current page and use the links on that page instead of Back'ing up to get to the same place again? :)Sincerely, Ken ------------------------------------ To leave this Talk List send an email to macjordomo@smithmicro.com with BODY unsubscribe WebDNA-Talk ------------------------------------ Kenneth Grome

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