Thanks tommy and Gud.
Thank Tommy, I haven't been helpful. I don't know enough about Access to offer any advice. I only use Access databases through ODBC.
My god...he's gonna do the whole speech.
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Gudanov - Feb 01, 2007 6:03:51 am PST #524 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Feb 01, 2007 6:07:24 am PST #525 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Access makes a pretty good front end, in our experience. (If you don't mind a thick client.) Generally we use SQL Server as a back end. We will generally create most of the queries in Access, but if a query is too slow we'll convert it into an SQL Server stored procedure or view.
Gudanov - Feb 01, 2007 6:07:50 am PST #526 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I think I've figured out the buzzwords. They are looking for a web site content manager that includes password management as well.
Could you just use some Wiki software, I'm pretty sure most, if not all, provide user management to read / edit articles. I've used docuWiki and I know there is user management to limit the ability to edit articles and I'm pretty sure you can limit reading as well.
Gudanov - Feb 01, 2007 6:09:54 am PST #527 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Technically we don't support Access as a back end, but it still is used quite a bit in demos and testing and, sadly, production.
esse - Feb 01, 2007 6:14:31 am PST #528 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
flea - Feb 01, 2007 7:00:51 am PST #529 of 25496
information libertarian
I have an HTML question. I am taking this page [link] and moving it into our CMS. To do that, I have to change the table width from 700 to 550, since our CMS requires content fit in the correct sized box.
When I change the table width, the hand-coded, using 'div class' tags, spacing gets frelled up. (It comes out like this: [link] ) Is there any way to fix this other than going in to each example and counting the spaces required and moving the hand-coded tags? This is one page of about 20, each with about 10 exmples, that I need to move.
Or should I thow myself on the mercy of our in-house web developers?
Ginger - Feb 01, 2007 7:23:25 am PST #530 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The odd jumps to the next line seem to be caused by a div starting at that point. On most entries, the div class "apa" opens and closes, and then opens again to cause the line break. It's made fuzzier by the font size not being part of the div class.
flea - Feb 01, 2007 7:26:09 am PST #531 of 25496
information libertarian
The guy who originally coded it is an asshole, if that matters.
Can I just strip out the whole div thing and put in ' ' spaces by hand? I'm thinking that would be easier. I can't imagine why he used a div in the first place.
Dana - Feb 01, 2007 7:27:15 am PST #532 of 25496
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The guy who originally coded it is an asshole, if that matters.
t snork
Typo Boy - Feb 01, 2007 7:45:11 am PST #533 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
So, did he create one div class with a single number of spaces, and then use that class everywhere he needed that number of spaces?
Or did overwrite the class, and hand code a number of spaces each time? The second sounds a lot more assholeish, so I assume that is what happened.