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Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 4: More asset management and reporting

Track user requests regarding assets in X-Trapolate

Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), Freelance writer, Backstop Media
Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, an Oracle instructor, and the Chief Technology Officer of an interactive communications company. He is the author of several books, including XML Primer Plus (Sams).
Stony Yakovac (syakovac@gmail.com), Software engineer, Freelance
Stony Yakovac is an engineer and freelance author living in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. He works on a wide variety of projects, including software and digital hardware designs.

Summary:  This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 4 of this six-part series demonstrates how to pull together many of the techniques touched on in earlier installments using the example of the order review form and the asset management form, with special privileges for procurement users. It also introduces new techniques for handling real-world issues.

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Date:  17 Apr 2007
Level:  Intermediate PDF:  A4 and Letter (1641 KB | 62 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Tutorials normally are designed to show you one specific skill in isolation, which typically leads to fairly simplistic applications. In this case, however, the purpose is to show you some of the issues you might run into in designing a real-world application such as, in this case, an accounting application.

In this tutorial you learned about issues such as working with multiple database tables and translating them into XML, as well as implementing switch/case statements, and creating a master-detail form.

In Part 5, you'll move on to looking at payments and liabilities for the company and other financial analysis.

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