my details page shows a number instead of text?

hi,

i went through and followed the wizard to create my results, insert pages. however the assigned to field allows me to selece from a username at insert yet at results page or details it shows the userid who logged it i.e. 1, 2, 3 ..........etc

can someone tell me how to set this to the username rather than a number?

many thanks

You need to modify the recordset on the results page to use a JOIN Query to get results from the main table and the user name from the users table.


modify the select .. from statement of the recordset to a joined query, but do not change the where clause.


I do not know your table and column names, so cannot give the exact SQL, but the syntax will be:

SELECT mainTable.*, userTable.*
FROM mainTable
INNER JOIN userTable
ON mainTable.ForeignKeyToUserTable = userTable.PrimaryKey

Then open the bindings tab and esxpand the recordset, the username column from the users table should be listed, replace the userID in the results with the username.

thanks, i thought you did not have to do this as it was possible dataassist would create the joins for you?

is it possible to do within the wizard at creation?


many thanks for your help jason

No, the wizard will not create the joins for you, you have to modify the recordsets after the pages have been created.

my understanding from a previous post was no need to create relationships in mysql database as it can be done with dataassist, can you help with a more detailed instruction with this or point me to any docs on this please?

thanks again

Creating the relationships in the database does not change how the recordsets will be created.

The way you create relationships in the application is through the use or Foreign keys to relate to primary key columns.


when you do this, you need to manually modify the recordsetrs that are created to retrieve the related information using join queries, this will not be done by the DataAssist wizard.


more information on creating join queries can be found here:
sql_join.asp

made a bit of a mess with this this is what i came up with from your instruction:

SELECT leads.*, Products.*
FROM Products
INNER JOIN leads
ON Products.ForeignKeyToleads = Products.PrimaryKey

basically in leads there is an enquirytype, in products there is 2 columns prdoid and prdouctname.

i want it to show the product name instead of productid?

many thanks again

In the on statement, you need to specify the correct column names.

ON leads.ForeignKeyToleads = Products.PrimaryKey



Substitute "ForeignKeyToleads" with the name of the column in the Products table that contains the Product ID, In other words, the column that acts as the Foreign key relationship to the products table.

Substitute "PrimaryKey" With the name of the column in the Products table that contains the product ID. In other words, acts as the primary Key column

got you now, thanks alot jason.