Re: [Gnue-dev] FK Support

[Jason Cater]

I am fine with that.  I always have to refer to a sample to remember the
syntax, anyway :)   However, to be consistent with other references to
datasources, it may be better to have fk_source="" instead of
fk_datasource.  Just a thought -- I really don't care either way. 

-- Jason


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:33:43 -0500 (CDT)
"Derek Neighbors" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I was thinking at times FK support is confusing to people...I think
> maybe it best to put datasource as an attribute so instead of :
> 
> <entry field="type_id" name="inpType" style="dropdown" width="10"
> x="11" y="5" foreign_key="dtsEvent_type.id"
> foreign_key_description="name"/>
> 
> 
> it would look like:
> 
> <entry field="type_id" name="inpType" style="dropdown" width="10"
> x="11" y="5" fk_datasource="dtsEvent_type" fk_key="id"
> fk_description="name"/>
> 
> Then in designer at some point one could select the fk_datasource from
> a list of valid datasources and once that was selected it would then
> only show valid fields for that datasource in fk_key and
> fk_description, which I think would help usability quite a bit.
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Derek
> 
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