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    Static Data in A5W or html pages. How to make dynamic.

    Thank you so much for helping. I spent a couple of days looking for the answer in the help files and videos, and must have just missed it. I am sure one of you will be able to solve my problem in short order and I thank you.

    I am trying to create a web component grid using the Google maps feature pack. It works just fine on the desktop. However when i upload it to the server, instead of reading from the Alpha5 database, it reads from static information taken from the database on my desktop. In other words, all the values are hardcoded into the page. It does not look like that (View source) on my desktop. But View source shows the values when it is online. I cannot seem to make it dynamic. In the Grid Layout menu, the grid is Read only. Thinking that was the problem, I tried to make it Updateable, and had to change all the fields to drop downs from text labels, but that did not do any good. The layout kept reverting to Read only. I hope that is not the right place to change things since I don't want the world to update my data, only see it.

    What am I doing wrong? Also, I read in the wiki that the data directory should be like this A5Webroot/data/ but not in the same directory as the project - A5Webroot/Maps/Data. Right? I am a little fuzzy on how to state the directory for the data directory. / \ data, A5Webroot\data or /data and so on. Duh.
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    Re: Static Data in A5W or html pages. How to make dynamic.

    Originally posted by mexicomike View Post
    Thank you so much for helping. I spent a couple of days looking for the answer in the help files and videos, and must have just missed it. I am sure one of you will be able to solve my problem in short order and I thank you.

    I am trying to create a web component grid using the Google maps feature pack. It works just fine on the desktop. However when i upload it to the server, instead of reading from the Alpha5 database, it reads from static information taken from the database on my desktop. In other words, all the values are hardcoded into the page. It does not look like that (View source) on my desktop. But View source shows the values when it is online. I cannot seem to make it dynamic. In the Grid Layout menu, the grid is Read only. Thinking that was the problem, I tried to make it Updateable, and had to change all the fields to drop downs from text labels, but that did not do any good. The layout kept reverting to Read only. I hope that is not the right place to change things since I don't want the world to update my data, only see it.

    What am I doing wrong?
    Are you sure you have a problem? When you View Source, you should in fact see what appear to be static values. This is because the server executes the code in your A5W page and sends the evaluated values to the browser, not code to evaluate values.

    Originally posted by mexicomike View Post
    Also, I read in the wiki that the data directory should be like this A5Webroot/data/ but not in the same directory as the project - A5Webroot/Maps/Data. Right? I am a little fuzzy on how to state the directory for the data directory. / \ data, A5Webroot\data or /data and so on. Duh.
    Your data directory should be outside of the webroot. If it is anywhere within your webroot, the data can potentially be accessed directly instead of through the application as you have designed it. If there is a specific place in the wiki that this is not clear, please let us know so that we can update it.

    Lenny Forziati
    Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
    Alpha Software Corporation

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      Re: Static Data in A5W or html pages. How to make dynamic.

      Thanks Lenny. Wow, I was completely lost then. Let me try your suggestion and put the data directory oustide and see what happens. I did not save the place where I read what I thought I read in the wiki, but will look for it again. I have looked at so many articles in the past two days. It is also quite possible that I read between the lines too.

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        Re: Static Data in A5W or html pages. How to make dynamic.

        OK, I do have a problem. I did not explain well what I had done. I have published the data to a directory oustide A5webroot (and also tried publishing it inside, which is what i thought i read was a wrong thing to do). But I did not publish to the root directory without a folder. So I went back and published new. Data is in a directory /data. When the project shows up, the .a5w page shows up, the Google map shows up, but the data shown in the dropdowns are not the same as the data in the database. I added a couple of records, which show up fine on my desktop, but when i publish the project, it only shows the data before I added the records. That is why I thought the page was static.

        Another problem is that I made special images to use as marker icons and saved them to this project under altrenate views / use current database images. They are not to be found. ANd the project does not appear to search on the map, because the images are missing. There is an .adb file and it uploaded, but does not help. The only icons that show up are for records that do not show up in my search dropdown. So any help on what is wrong will be appreciated. A link follows. Thank you.

        http://allmexicoinfo.com/mapsearch.a5w

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