Thanks, my only thought now is, what form of blank-record does the UI receive? ADO Recordset?, which is passes back to the business object when saving?

Kev

>Hmmm.. I guess I wasn't clear enough earlier. Sorry for any confusion I caused.
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>There are two things that happen when a new record is added:
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>1. The user presses the Add button. The following then occurs:
>- The UI requests a new record from the biz object. (this is a single record).
>- The biz object requests a blank record from the data object.
>- The data object returns an empty record to the biz object.
>- The biz object sets any default values
>- The biz object returns the empty record to the UI
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>2. After entering the new data, the user presses the Save button
>- The UI sends the data to the biz object
>- The biz object validates the data.
>- If not valid, go back to the UI
>- If valid, the biz object sends the data to the save method of the data object
>- The data object inserts the data into the database.
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>>Oh, just one more question (sorry to be a pain).
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>>If say, the client wants to create a new USER, the client calls the AddUser() method in the BO, then the BO calls the AddNew() method in the data-object, but, what form should the initial information passed around be in? I know ADO and XML are the forms, but what about identifying which values go in which fields?
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>>Should, perhaps, the client send a single-record recordset, or single-record XML string?
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>>Thanks
>>Kev
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