Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver List people: if you're trying to find an
answer to a Hard programming question, don't forget to try the "Lasso
Talk" list serve, as well. It is quite active.

THANKS to Da'oud Rashid and Mike Duncan of the "Lasso Talk" list serve,
they had two different ways to do it, it really helped out.

Sincerely,
Daniel

Da'oud Rashid wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> You can find a method for updating multiple records using one update
> button on page 199 in the Lasso Manual.
>
> I wouldn't go with the alternative approach you talked about, though,
> as this doesn't sound too good from a interface design perspective.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Da'oud
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Mike Duncan wrote:

> > I want to be able to edit EACH record, such as changing the name,
> > quantity
> > or color,
> > and be able to update them all, simply by clicking one update button
> at
> > one time.
> >
> > An example would be like a viewcart page, with several items found.
> > You could change particulars about each item, and still be able to
> > update
> > by clicking only one button.
>
> There are a couple alternatives for you. One is FileMaker specific, and
> uses
> portals to update the items in your cart, so you are limited to using
> the
> apple events mod if you are using filemaker 4, or upgrading to 5 to be
> able
> to use filemaker 5 with fm_remote. Then just update the portal items
> like
> normal.
>
> The other method uses something that can be dangerous, looping inlines.
> Basically you have an inline that finds the records you're looking at,
> then
> performs another inline for every record in the found set. For a
> shopping
> cart where the typical cart may be five or six items, this may not be a
> big
> deal, but for arbitrarily large carts, it could bog down your server,
> especially if you're using a datasource that isn't multi-threaded (fm).
>
> If you're using fm 5, I'd say do the portal thing, since it's much
> faster
> for updating multiple records... There's no shame in developing towards
> a
> specific server setup to optimize for performance :)

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