Screen Flow Design
My coding experience comes from mostly application development instead of web coding. In the application world, if the user receives a system error, a new form would display the error, with any helpful information for the user and the application administer. This way there is a systematic way to handle errors. In the web world, how is this done?
For example, if I have a form where the user is entering data to be inserted into a DB. Is this the correct flow of pages?
-On submit of Entry form, an ASP page is called to insert the data -If insert successful, take the user to the next logical page -If insert not successful, display an error.htm page.
Basically, the entry page does not have the insert SQL and if there is an error in the insert (not because of missing fields because those are handled with JavaScript before submit), the error is displayed on a completely different page. Is this correct flow?
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I am building a site that offers the purchase of information. Clients can view a limited amount of info then they are able to view each recset in further detail once they purchase it. I am running into difficulties of how to facilitate this. I am using dbquicksite3 to build the ASP (I could do it on my own but it would take much longer). I am using Access 2000 for the DB and this also seems to be limiting me somewhat). I want to keep it simple because it is not a broad reaching website (probably several hundred recsets of purchase info and hopefully several thousand customers). Anyway, the problem is that I have a search for the basic results, I have a basic results page but I cannot figure out how to allow users to access only the pages that they purchase right after they purchase rather than watching my email account and sending the query results back via email. I suppose I could built a 'watcher' app that could parse the email from paypal for the order number and query my DB for the paidinfo/basic info results, combine them and send out an email in response....
Is this the best way? I have a log in but 9 levels does not help considering I have hundereds of recsets of info that can be purchased and if I give access by levels they would be able to view all in that tier.
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Generally before going for development, i like to put everything on paper.
something like a flow are there any tools by which i can create these flow chart or mock ups with less pain
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How can I draw a data flow diagram (DFD) for a website which I made in ASP and ACCESS ?
The site is just handling a discussion forum like DEVSHED.
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We have got several forms in our company related to product information and documentation.This forms created by some people and go on a way for approval of other people(General Managers,Assistant General Managers etc...)
But all of this is done manually at the moment.What I want to do is create an APPROVAL system which the people enter by their usernames and passwords,give approval to his/her related form and reminds the others from his/her approval.(System will do it automatically)
There will be approximetely 12-15 people using this system.The security must be very important here.The pages after he/she logs to the system will remind them the work he/she will going to do at that time.All these people have different approval tasks on different forms.
I hope I can explain the system to you.The problem is in how a way that I am going to do this.Will I create a page for all those people one by one?? This will be very absurd in a programming environment.I must be do it dynamically but how??
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At the core of my DB schema is a request table. This entity has one or
more assignment records and each assignment record has one or more
assignment log records. The log tracks assignment actions such as hold,
release, open, close, etc.
In VB, I would normally create Request, Assignment, and AssignmentLog for
the data. I would also create two custom collections for Assignments and
AssignmentLogs. Given any Request ID, I could populate everything else
with encapsulated queries and recordsets. The request object could
implement properties to give the currently assigned helper, open state,
elapsed time, etc.
My question to you is; how to I implement this model for the Web? As I
understand it, web objects are stateless. If my request object can't
persist its data in memory, then does it have to fire a query every time
the caller wants a property value? Will I always have to pass the
RequestID in as a parameter?
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I want to write a shop content management system in ASP.However the database holding the products for sale will be on a different pc to the webserver.I do not want the remote webserver pc to authenticate against the sql server.
Ideally the cms should produce static html pages which could be indexed by a search engine.So far,the most likely solution will be for the web pages to include javascript includes which will reference an asp page on the same machine which houses the sql server, this will then insert the values into the web page at run time.
I could make it so that the sql server PC creates the entire website, then automatically ftps' it to the remote website - however the problem here would be that the ftp would probably go wrong a lot and generate loads of support calls.
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which is a better model to implement to design a database with all the constraints during the design of tables, etc, etc or to write the code ( in asp ) and implement the constraints needed when storing data by means of the code.
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In my ASP application, I have a chart that will popup in a
new window. From the opener window, I want to add a button
that will capture the chart to the clipboard and be able
to paste it to other application. I just want the client
area and don't want to include menu bar, address bar and
so forth.
Can I do that with pure asp without a component?
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I will have a web site where hotels can list themselves on it.One thing I am encountering that is a challenge, is that every hotel has different types of rooms. Also, every hotel has the normal high and low seasons, and some even have more seasons such as shoulder, weekend, etc. which affect room rates. So here is how I concieve the design:
First, allow hotels to specify how many seasons they have, perhaps with a drop-down box of values such as 1,2,3...6,7 etc. They would then be presented with a series of text boxes, and asked to define the season, such as "High" "Low", etc. Adjacent to every season would be a beginning and ending date for that season. Next, they would be asked how many types of rooms they have, such as a drop down with 1,2,3,....5,6,7. Once decided,a form would present itself with form fields for the each room, such as description, ameneities, and most importanty, rates PER season. The seasons would be defined from previous step and would be unique for each hotel.
Once complete, this would give a web site where I could list hotels and each would have its seasons, rooms and rates listed uniquely.Is this a good concept?
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I want to take the HTML source of a page and validate it and do certain things with it (all for good reasons!) much like W3C validators and such like do.
Trouble is:
* screen scrapes normally require 3rd pary component, and my host will not allow this
* my host does not support .net (which can do screen scrapes without a component)
My host does have cgi/perl support, so I was thinking I could:
* do a screen scrape using a simple perl script (suggestions please!)
* somehow get that to be submitted to an ASP page as form data
After that I can hack about with it as I see fit using the ASP.
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I'm trying to replace a JavaScript that checks screen resolutions with an ASP dito
I've tried the HTTP_UA_PIXELS (servervariables) but it doesn't seem to work. I haven't found how to do this anywhere and I guess it's simple but please tell me how to do this
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I need to write an application (VB script/ASP) that programmatically
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and use data from existing web sites. For example, the application will have
"to","from", "departaure" and "return" date fields that will be filled out by
an end user. The application then searches expedia.com, grabs results, and
displays it on my own screeen. Then a user selects flights and the
application routes the request back to expedia to book flights. The
confirmation number generated by expedia is displayed on my screen, etc.,
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This is going to sound like a really basic question, but at the moment my mind is running a total blank and i can't seem to find any reference to how to do it - but how, using VB Script, can I determine the height and width of the screen?
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yet my colleague can? (when looking at exactly the same page - same destination folder etc)
Is there some sort of setting, so that you dont only see those small yellow ASP blocks when looking at the design view, and see the layout of the page , with the tables etc?
I realise that most of you gurus dont use the design view at all, but it is something that using ASP,
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My site seems to preload everything prior to displaying itself. I get a white screen for a couple of seconds and then, bam!, its all loaded and displayed.The same happens when the user navigates around the site. In between each page there is a white screen and a delay.is there anything I can do to minimise this white screen delay?
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Is it possible to determine a user's screen resolution?
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I need to have a webpage that starts off with content down the side and along the top, when the respective top and side have a value id like it showing up at where the side and the top meet. I had tables in my database that linked up and when I ran a form with a subform it seemed to work well.
But I cant seem to get anywhere close to pulling the data down correctly to a webpage so help.Its difficult to kinda explain what I want to do and I seem to be having a difficult time making it run properly.
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how most of ya'll design your databases and why in that particular way? I'm specifically interested in setting up tables in which the data are linked.ie:table1 contain registration information and table2 contains account information and comments.
How would I link these? I'm thinking using a standard primary such as autonum and when they register to write to the two tables but i might be mistaken.
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I have customers that I designed a site for. I am almost complete with the site, and they are saying that the font is too small. However, on my computer it looks just like the font on devshed and everyother site. Are there any suggestions out there, as to maybe their settings are messed up or my scripting is bad .
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what i need to do is when someone hits my site, it must detect what that person's screen resolution is and according to that include a specific navigation.
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I am currently creating an intranet application, in which the staff will be able to create their personal profile uploading their pictures and such. Now i have tend to act cautious when users need to upload their picture. i have set the maximnum size to 30kb.
my project manager seem to think otherwise saying this might discourage pple from using the application. I need some advice though as regards the maximum size of the picture.
Also, does ASP has any inbuilt object that can resize a picture before storing in a database.
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I have coded my pages in HTML and named them as ASP. I would like to use a trailing string i.e. domain.com/page.asp@somthing=4 . which pulls from a database of plan names and corresponding prices over a user selected interval. I want to offer pricing over these intervals:
1month
3months
6months
12months
24months
with a percentage discount being offered for each greater length of time. The user should be able to use radio buttons to select how to pay and after this a paypal button should be generated with the designated amount.
Now that I have layed out what my intensions are, does anyone have any ideas of how to complete my goals using ASP? and if ASP will not do the trick does anyone know of a better/differnat way to do this.
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There is a problem which confused me for a long time. I have a web application built by ASP running on IIS, and most time it's OK.
occasionally when IE send request to IIS and then receive HTML from server it will stop with no reason. IE shows a white-screen and then I check the HTML source and find that only partially received. After I press F5 everything is OK again...
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I'm looking for way to get the users screen size in asp. Including something like
If screensize=800x600 Then
varscreensize = "800x600"
Is this possible with asp?
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I need some help optimising my object design. Since one article has 1+
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to have a Authors property, of type "array", capable of representing any
number of authors.
The code I have written (below) works, but is very inefficient; if I want
the asp page to fetch a list of 30 authors using GetAuthors(30), there will
be a total of *31* calls to the database - one call in GetArticles(), and
one call to GetAuthors() for EACH article! Code:
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I have an array of records, would like to put them into X no of tables depending on the number of records. The max X is 3. For eg, i have 15 records in the array
I would to have record 0,3,6,9,12,15 in table 1,record 1,4,7,10,13 in table 2, record 2,5,8,11,14 in table 3.
I tried to use 3 for loop, it did the job but is there a better way to do.?
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I am not sure that asp is a right place for that question, so gurus will move it to proper section. But as soon as I display images using aspupload the solution probably will be also in asp. I do not have problem to show them on asp page, so it is not a problem of aspupload. Its just a general asp question:
Do you know any techniques how to display full screen images without using popup window?
I would like image to take all the full screen without any browser menues or explorer menu bars. Something like you see when screensaver turn on.
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I use a little asp script to get some site statistics ... essentially logging each session into a database using global.asa.
How do I capture the screen resolution in this setup ?
I know how to get the screen resolution in JavaScript ... but how do I combine javascript and asp within global.asa ? Or is there another way in asp to get the screen resolution ?
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How do I write " " to the screen? Here's my code:
string(right_array.count, " ")
It keeps printing like this: &
I've even tried this:
server.htmlencode(string(right_array.count, " "))
I just can't get it to work.
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We have a cart we built using sessions, it has been fine until now where our server times out at 20 mins no matter what we or the server techs do, so now we want to redesign the cart using tables soley, can this be done?
If so is there any disadvanages of doing this? Anyone know of a tutorial to do this so we can get started?
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I was wondering if there is any possible way to do this:
I would like some application on my server go out to a certain page at specific time intervals and scrape some data from it.
I imagine it would work similar to grabbing an updated RSS feed...except without the RSS. I would then like the scraped data to be stored in a database, or a text file, or an html page so the data can be pulled into another page.
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