Hi Charles,

Let me present a specific example of what I want to do.

On a single form (a maintenance form for example) using a single business object and a single table, I want to retrieve 3 related records. I want to edit record 1 and then navigate to record 2. I do NOT want to be prompted to save the changes I made in record 1 and I do NOT want those changes automatically saved. I then want to delete record 2 and then navigate to record 3 with no "Save Changes?" prompt. After viewing record 3 but without editing it al all, I want to create a new record 4. Then I want to save all the changes I made to all 4 records all at one time and all wrapped in a single transaction.

Sam

>Sam - here's the first answer to roll in from one of the long-time users on the forum
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>"Yes everything is supported out of the box. Let me give you an example:
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>You can have a form with a many Business Objects as you want, related in a any way you want and be able to save them all in a single transaction or in several transactions or some within transactions and others not or any combination you could imagine to create.
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>StrataFrame does not require the parent record to be saved in order to create multiple children or grand children records. When a new record is created the PK value for the first one will be -1 and this value will be propagated to the related tables FK, so when saved it will update all with the auto-incremented value from the database. Also if you save a child business object which the parent has not been saved, StrataFrame will save all parent tables to ensure the reliability of the Primary/Foreign Key assignments.
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>StrataFrame is so flexible in that you can create forms as those in MS OutLook to handle a single transaction per form, so in the case of accounting you can have a form to do a debit/credit transaction for a single customer and if you need to work on another customer you can just create another instance of the form with another customer record.
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>Of course the term "Out of the Box" does not mean that the developer does not have to program the logic required by the application's business rule [BigGrin] we have to do something besides using StrataFrame [Hehe]"
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>I should be hearing from Trent Taylor tomorrow.
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>>I am just beginning to investigate Strataframe and I have a specific question. I would appreciate an answer from anyone who might know the correct answer. I am not prepared to signup for their free trial yet and I don't think I can post questions on their user forum.
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>>The frameworks I have worked with in the past seem to be designed expecting that I will be editing one record at a time from a given table. If I attempt to add or edit another record in the same table without saving the first record I edited, I am forced to either save the changes or abandon the changes before I can move to and edit another record.
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>>I am a CPA and I need to be able to add or edit multiple debit and/or credit transactions and then save all of them wrapped in a single backend transaction. Does Strataframe allow this right out of the box?
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>>Sam