[Sigia-l] creating, displaying and editting one-to-many relationships

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"Miriam Walker" wrote:

> I'd appreciate some suggestions/links to screen designs on widgets and page
> layouts for creating, displaying and editing one-to-many relationships.

Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to require users to think about entity
relationships.

I think you're facing the classical problem of how to fetch and display
multiple groups of interdependent data dynamically and position them in
proximity to allow the user to see the relationships, no?

(If bookmarkability and other technical well-known issues are not a problem
here) you can use frames and display them side-by-side.

Top    |Mid1       |Low1
       |Mid2       |Low2
       |Mid3       |Low3
       |           |Low4
       |           |Low5

(Top > Mid2 > Low3, Low5)

There are also iFrame and DHTML methods (more prone to incompatibilities)
that can serve a similar function. But you owe it to yourself to explore the
Flash MX option since in-place updating/editing/hiding-revealing of variable
data can best be done in that environment.

Ziya
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