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4/25/2006 7:54 AM

	Martin Gauna
4 posts

dynamic forms

Hello

I wonder if I can create a module that creates and configures a form to be displayed to the user with this particularity: The form creation generates a database table, and the form fields creation and edition adds/alters/drops columns of that table.

Is this possible?

Thank you

4/26/2006 12:20 AM

	Aaron Jackson
18 posts
www.aaronkjackson.com

Re: dynamic forms

This should not be a problem to create a module to work this way. The DataProvider would simply need to query the table schema to generate the form dynamically and then issue the proper DDL commands to create/modify the table to match the form as it changes. A drawback to implementing a dynamic form this way would be that the deletion of a form field would result in a column being deleted and historical data would be lost. A clever database schema could be created to describe and store the data in a dynamic form without the data loss problem.

Aaron Jackson
The Network Group

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