Re: Xaraya database

Marcel van der Boom wrote in news:bh02mj$6ie$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]:

>> Put differently, it's not so much the fields themselves that are
>> important, but what conclusions can be drawn from them (and from
>> Xaraya's behavior in maintaining the database).
> Agreed, but that's what we have the content management for. I'm not
> sure how, but it should be possible to hook up content to that screen
> so it stays attached to the raw table information. If it's not
> possible (yet), i'm sure Mike will be interested to add it, or have it
> added. Just trying to think with you how to do this as easy as
> possible (not to mention that i want the documentation as well ;-) )

Yes and no...

It would be nice if this type ofinformation could ultimately be added 
"internally" in an installation - but then you can look at it only when 
you've already done an installation.

The purpose of my document is primarily to be able to make decisions 
*before* installation, about whether or not you're going to share 
database tables between different (sub)sites. So my intention is to have 
a document that outlines this publically available _as a document_, just 
like the multi-site installation tutorial is now (and to which I'll add 
my own third variation - when I've sorted out which tables to share...).

And, to have it integrated internally, I'd need to know whether the 
information is correct in the first place - which is why I put up what I 
have by now for comment!

As to maintainability, that's actually very easy - it's just an HTML 
document that I re-upload when I've made some changes. :)

> Sure, but would you be interested in working with us to get this
> information on our site somehow and also maintain it there? That way
> it's central.

That's the ultimate aim, of course. But it's called 'preliminary' for a 
reason: for now, there's so much guesswork still, I thought it better to 
have it at least half-way correct before it goes out to the xaraya.com 
site. I don't even know whether it's 10% correct or 80% correct or 
whatever. People wouldn't expect something totally incorrect on the 
Xaraya site, would they?

So I thought it better to keep it in my own sandbox until I'm reasonably 
sure it's mostly correct and useful!


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Marjolein Katsma
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