I assure you that your posts are being taken seriously and that do want to help you find the best solution whether that be Dreamweaver or not. This has been lost in retail where WalMart has to have everything and if they don't pointing you to another store to be more helpful is an offense that warrants the emplyoee being fired.
I have to ask because every reply doesn't seem to be in response to my posts directly.
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I will at least try to show you how your questions are being answered:
| For example I wrote that I do have a form created and I have used the insert record function and I have been able to display the record on a webpage all successfully. But I have not been able to insert a second record for the same user and display it on a web page successfully. |
The answer from my first post:
| And DW's pre-built tools will take you so far, but after you reach a certain point, the code hinting and personal knowledge that you can learn will far exceed was is built into DW |
DW does not have this option built in. But Dreamweaver does allow you to write custom queries. As I went on in my second response:
| What you are asking for here is a basic concept in SQL language. What you need to do is a SELECT query using the WHERE clause to select the items where the rep is the one who posted like: SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE rep=$_SESSION[rep] . That would be like the discussion forum page and then you would select an individual record from that page. |
Unfortunately you have given us nothing to go on. No data structure at all. So I cannot say you should be linking tables here, with joins here and foreign keys here. I can only speak in the same generalization that you have given us. If you have a genuine interest in learning how to write SQL queries I, and many other users here, are more than willing to help you out and get you pointed in the right direction with tutorials, resources, etc., but we need more to go on. We understand that companies handle things a certain way, confidentiality, etc., but if that's the case and the information is not allowed to be discussed anywhere, you should request that your company pay for you to receive the necessary training.
If I should buy Sales force then why did I buy DW? |
This goes back to my Wordpress comment because I have seen plenty of posts lately of frustrated users who got DW thinking it was the answer to editing Wordpress only to realize how much PHP and coding is involved to make those changes. DW is a professional-level tool with a steep learning curve. I've been using it myself since the Macromedia days. Experience doesn't come overnight and your first post on the forums contained " I tried to use the insert record wizard". The fact that your first post mentioned the wizard and had no mention of code or queries will lead many users to assume your skill level. Thus, in a business environemnt where time is money, we opted to instruct you about solutions which can help you attain your goals for a lower development and testing cost to get you up and running.
Sales force had to start with hand coding and eventually they launched a modular system system and resold the system for other companies to use. The monthly fee is no worse than asking you to upgrade Office or Windows or memory in your computer. For a consumer perspective $65/month is a lot, but for a business that is pocket change considering the costs of owning/leasing a building, running internet connections, power, depreciation on automobiles, reimbursing traveling outdoor sales teams, etc, etc.
So while you made have made a purchase of DW, even if you don't use it for CRM purposes, you can still use it for your external website, intranet, testing HTML email campaigns and many other functions. And sometimes businesses take risks and lose money because all of the details were not explained. For that I would ask if you knew what you wanted to accomplish and did not have much web experience, did you talk to a sales professional regarding the app or even post here on the forums seeking advise of a product community as to whether the product would meet the needs of your business?
| Look folks if you don't know how to create a dynamic website just say so but calling me arrogant because I don't want to acquire another monthly bill on something that can be created using DW and a web server is ludichrist. |
Many people who travel this forum know how to create a dynamic website and could help you understand things on another level. You can build Facebook or Amazon with Dreamweaver, but is there a "wizard" to do it for you. The answer is absolutely not. Dreamweaver is a tool like a hammer or a screwdriver, but it's specifically targeted at websites. It can help you accomplish a lot from a GUI and coding perspective that a traditional text editor, which many of us used early on in web development, failed to offer. You were arrogant for stating something that helps you building your business would charge you money is simply outrageous. The fact that you can just pass something off because it costs money. Paypal works on a transaction basis charging you a percentage of a sale, are companies and payment processors not worth the money you pay them? There are plenty of businesses who will tell you not to invest in Open Source because it's free and developed by the community and if the community dissolves, so does your business. People are in business to make money and their products are not for everyone. Companies like this exist and charge on a regular basis to lower your bandwidth costs but not having your employees constantly accessing data from your servers. They charge monthly so that you don't have to worry about servers to store the application, the power for the data center, the redudancy in case of error or emergency. Maybe arrogant was the wrong choice of word, but it is still fact that you wouldn't consider them because of a regular charge.
| Where the idea that I work for a company that can afford sending me to school came from is also mystery. I never mentioned a word about a company at all. I asked a pretty basic question that even was commented that the question I asked had a simple solution. I believe that the solution is simple but what is the solution? Even the user who claimed that the solution was simple has failed to produce the simple solution directly. |
You are right that we have no idea about the company and your situation. You could be a freelancer for all we know. In which case, did the company who hired you know of your situation and are willing to work with you?
To the part about my solution to you, go back earlier in this post where I explain what you have given us and about learning the SQL query language.
If you have information to share and want to work through this post back. If not, I will say it is a long road to learn web design and one that should be considered heavily with your interests, skillset and desire to continually learn in a field that changes as rapidly as web development has.
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