layouts views

[VICH]

when you share outa database on the web it makes you choose a view such as the soft grey or fern green, what if i don't want any of them and i want my database to show up as is, with all the buttons i put in and all the scripts working?

[Steve T.]

Hi, V! Sorry... I didn't know you made another post or I would've mentioned that, too. Not everything works the same when you web publish a database.

Scripts, for example, were a major issue for years and FM7 tried to improve on it, but basically scripts-over-the-web can be risky business. I think I remember reading about it being "single-threaded" vs. "multi-threaded" or something, meaning that if a script is initiated from the web, it can only run script at a time and if subsequent script requests are made, they will be ignored until the active script finishes. Actually, it will be like the script requests were never even made as they will not be "saved" for later execution after the active one ends. This can be very problematic, depending upon the scripts you elect to use and how many people will be using them. I tended to avoid scripts-over-the-web altogether except for those that didn't matter if they ran or not.

I haven't used IWP much so cannot comment about the buttons, but they are script-based so I'd try to avoid them as well if you can.

--ST

[VICH]

well what about getting ride of hte layouts that come default