Re: Using Applescript to process WebCatalog functions
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17730
interpreted = N
texte = >> Of course, there's a lot more to it than this, especially if there's more than >> one database that needs to be replaced in this manner... > >Can you explain this more detailled? What are your concerns when there are more databases? Well ... if there's only a single database that needs to be uploaded to that one 'upload-folder', then there's very little WebDNA coding required.But if you plan to use the same 'upload-folder' to receive replacement db files from all your clients, then you will have to create some method if identifying *which* db the newly uploaded replacement file is supposed to replace.And you'll also have to deal with the possibility that two or more replacement files may appear in that folder at the same time, which means you'll have to give WebCat the ability to identify which file goes where. But that's an issue you have to deal with no matter what system you use, because even a single client can upload two or more files at the same time.And if by chance two or more fo the newly-uploaded files have the same name, one will probably overwrite the other, or else the second one will be given a different name ... and that's another problem entirely.So basically it's a whole lot easier (from a WebDNA coding standpoint) to designate a unique folder for each replacement db file that's going to be uploaded, then you know that when a file appears in that folder, there's only one place for it to go.There's an issue dealing with that 'panic button' you might want to think about, too. It's a good idea in gereral, but if the user uploads two files in succession and they are both bad, and if he doesn't use the panic button in between the uploads, then using the panic button will not replace a bad db file with a good one, it will replace the bad one with another bad one ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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>> Of course, there's a lot more to it than this, especially if there's more than >> one database that needs to be replaced in this manner... > >Can you explain this more detailled? What are your concerns when there are more databases? Well ... if there's only a single database that needs to be uploaded to that one 'upload-folder', then there's very little WebDNA coding required.But if you plan to use the same 'upload-folder' to receive replacement db files from all your clients, then you will have to create some method if identifying *which* db the newly uploaded replacement file is supposed to replace.And you'll also have to deal with the possibility that two or more replacement files may appear in that folder at the same time, which means you'll have to give WebCat the ability to identify which file goes where. But that's an issue you have to deal with no matter what system you use, because even a single client can upload two or more files at the same time.And if by chance two or more fo the newly-uploaded files have the same name, one will probably overwrite the other, or else the second one will be given a different name ... and that's another problem entirely.So basically it's a whole lot easier (from a WebDNA coding standpoint) to designate a unique folder for each replacement db file that's going to be uploaded, then you know that when a file appears in that folder, there's only one place for it to go.There's an issue dealing with that 'panic button' you might want to think about, too. It's a good idea in gereral, but if the user uploads two files in succession and they are both bad, and if he doesn't use the panic button in between the uploads, then using the panic button will not replace a bad db file with a good one, it will replace the bad one with another bad one ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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