Re: Empty Shopping Carts?

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 20296
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texte = >>I don't mean to start another discussion about documentation, but>>[numlineitems] isn't included anywhere in the reference material that I can>>find.>>Sorry, it's sort of buried in the ShowCart command docs. I guess I figured>if you were going to be showing the contents of your shopping cart, that>the place to look for things like that would be under ShowCart.It's not always easy to find the proper reference information in the HTML docs, even though it might be in there somewhere ...Most regular people (non-programmers) seldom think in terms of whether a task needs to be performed by a context, or by a command, or by a global tag, or by a context-specific tag. They only care about performing that task, so the *first* reference they really need is a comprehensive list of ALL the tags available in the WebDNA language -- so they can quickly learn more about a tag that *sounds like* it may do what they need.Personally I don't want to have to stop and try to figure out whether or not I need a global tag or a context-sensitive tag or a context or a command in order to do something, all I want to know -- at least immediately -- is if there's some kind of WebDNA capability that will do it for me. A comprehensive alphabetical listing would help a lot in this respect.I tend to look tags up alphabetically. But unfortunately, there's no true alphabetical listing for ALL the possible WebDNA tags ... :(The Global Tags list doesn't cut it, because that list does not include any of the context-specific tags, and it also does not include the context wrapper tags themselves -- those are in completely separate places ...The At-A-Glance page was a tremendous improvement to the HTML docs when it was added, and I use that page more than any other now when seeking information about a specific tag. But the tags on the At-A-Glance page are still 'grouped' instead of being alphabetized comprehensively, which means that before I can find the tag I need, I still have to try to figure out which 'group' a tag belongs to first ...And if I'm wrong, I won't find the info I need, or else I will waste my time and end up being frustrated to learn later that the tag I needed was listed in a different group than where I *thought* it should be ... :(I would like to see a NEW page added to the HTML docs with a comprehensive alphabetical list of ALL the tags available in the WebDNA language -- ALL OF THEM.Then I could go directly to that page, scan the list quickly from the top down, and instantly find just the tag I need. Then clicking the tag link should take me to the specific information we all need to understand about that tag, such as where it's appropriate to use it, and where it's not, and what it does, and how it does it, and etc., etc., etc.Another benefit of a comprehensive alphabetical list would be to make PCS's tech support easier, because when someone doesn't know how or where a particular tag can or should be used, or if there's even a tag available for a specific task, PCS could simply say:The [xxx] tag can help you with that task, and there's more information and examples for using the [xxx] tag on the All WebDNA Tags page in the HTML docs.Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Empty Shopping Carts? (Rob Marquardt 1998)
Re: Empty Shopping Carts? (Kenneth Grome 1998)
Re: Empty Shopping Carts? (Grant Hulbert 1998)
Re: Empty Shopping Carts? (Michael Winston 1998)
Re: Empty Shopping Carts? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
Empty Shopping Carts? (Brian Drum 1998)

>>I don't mean to start another discussion about documentation, but>>[numlineitems] isn't included anywhere in the reference material that I can>>find.>>Sorry, it's sort of buried in the ShowCart command docs. I guess I figured>if you were going to be showing the contents of your shopping cart, that>the place to look for things like that would be under ShowCart.It's not always easy to find the proper reference information in the HTML docs, even though it might be in there somewhere ...Most regular people (non-programmers) seldom think in terms of whether a task needs to be performed by a context, or by a command, or by a global tag, or by a context-specific tag. They only care about performing that task, so the *first* reference they really need is a comprehensive list of ALL the tags available in the WebDNA language -- so they can quickly learn more about a tag that *sounds like* it may do what they need.Personally I don't want to have to stop and try to figure out whether or not I need a global tag or a context-sensitive tag or a context or a command in order to do something, all I want to know -- at least immediately -- is if there's some kind of WebDNA capability that will do it for me. A comprehensive alphabetical listing would help a lot in this respect.I tend to look tags up alphabetically. But unfortunately, there's no true alphabetical listing for ALL the possible WebDNA tags ... :(The Global Tags list doesn't cut it, because that list does not include any of the context-specific tags, and it also does not include the context wrapper tags themselves -- those are in completely separate places ...The At-A-Glance page was a tremendous improvement to the HTML docs when it was added, and I use that page more than any other now when seeking information about a specific tag. But the tags on the At-A-Glance page are still 'grouped' instead of being alphabetized comprehensively, which means that before I can find the tag I need, I still have to try to figure out which 'group' a tag belongs to first ...And if I'm wrong, I won't find the info I need, or else I will waste my time and end up being frustrated to learn later that the tag I needed was listed in a different group than where I *thought* it should be ... :(I would like to see a NEW page added to the HTML docs with a comprehensive alphabetical list of ALL the tags available in the WebDNA language -- ALL OF THEM.Then I could go directly to that page, scan the list quickly from the top down, and instantly find just the tag I need. Then clicking the tag link should take me to the specific information we all need to understand about that tag, such as where it's appropriate to use it, and where it's not, and what it does, and how it does it, and etc., etc., etc.Another benefit of a comprehensive alphabetical list would be to make PCS's tech support easier, because when someone doesn't know how or where a particular tag can or should be used, or if there's even a tag available for a specific task, PCS could simply say:The [xxx] tag can help you with that task, and there's more information and examples for using the [xxx] tag on the All WebDNA Tags page in the HTML docs.Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Kenneth Grome

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