[pmwiki-users] DataPlates recipe delayed

[Ben Stallings]

Hi, folks.  I had planned to have a beta of the DataPlates recipe ready 
by now, but work has picked up and I may have to put it off for a couple 
more months.  I'm writing to ask if anyone besides myself was counting 
on using this recipe ... if so, I'll make it a higher priority.

In a nutshell, DataPlates automatically creates templates and ZAP forms 
to display and edit the data pages generated by the DataQuery recipe. 
DataQuery on its own merely presents database records as data pages, 
which can be intimidating when you have to create your own interface to 
display and edit them.  DataPlates not only generates these templates 
and forms automatically (and allows you to customize them), it also 
provides forms to edit DataQuery's own query-configuration pages (which 
are also ZAP data pages).

The reason I say DataPlates *does* these things instead of saying it 
*will do* them is that I had it working in early December, before I 
decided I had gone about it all wrong and started over.  I fully 
expected to have the new version working by now, but other priorities 
got in the way.

So if you've been interested in DataQuery but been discouraged by its 
user-unfriendliness, please let me know.  Thanks!  --Ben