[FX.php List] Forms that create new records

[Jonathan Schwartz]

That's a good suggestion, Erik.  In this case, 
it's Little League (American Baseball for kids) 
registration  and I can imagine that there might 
be some info that the parent might not have 
readily available.

I did discover another (apparent) benefit to 
using Session variables.  It seems that when the 
browser BACK button is used in a regular form 
(re-populating the form with an fx.php call) , 
the browser issues a warning . No warning is 
issued when only Session variables are used. 
Does that agree with your experience?

J




At 2:08 AM +0200 10/26/06, Erik Andreas Cayré wrote:
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>Den 26/10/2006 kl. 1.40 skrev Jonathan Schwartz:
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>>New project.  The process is filling out  a 
>>series of form page to generate a single new 
>>registration record.  I can think of two ways 
>>to approach the process:
>
>>1) storing the data in session variables until 
>>the last page is reached, and then dumping it 
>>to FMP with FMNew().  One advantage is that no 
>>new records will be created until the process 
>>has been completed. It will also be faster 
>>because FileMaker will not be involved until 
>>the last step.
>
>Advantage: you won't get orphan records in your 
>DB, when users give up (computer crash, dinner, 
>whatever...!)
>
>>2) Create the record on the first page and edit 
>>the record's data as the user progresses from 
>>page to page.
>
>Only go with this if the users are provided a 
>way to access/edit the record at a later time. 
>This would let the user leave the process, and 
>complete it later, when they have time or have 
>gathered information which they did not at first 
>have at hand.
>This is a special case, so it's probably not 
>what you're looking for, but not having all the 
>required info at hand is still a relevant issue. 
>It's good practice to present the user with an 
>overview of the complete process before she 
>begins. It's comforting to know where you're 
>going before you start the journey...
>
>just my 2¢
>
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