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Article on Spry HTML Datasets and DWCS4

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Posted in Development | Posted on 01-26-2009 | 3,488 views

Yes, my continued affair with Dreamweaver CS4 continues. Today Adobe published my latest article: Creating a Spry HTML data set

I went into this being convinced that I'd never use an HTML dataset in Spry, but they are actually pretty darn handy. I can see how they would be useful for people who don't feel comfortable creating XML or JSON. I know I've got at least one reader who maintains their data in a simple HTML table.

Also, I was extremely impressed with how easy DWCS4 made the process. I hope I was able to adequately express that in the article. You can go from a few clicks in the IDE to a table that loads data via AJAX and has column sorting built in. For people who don't make their day to day living slinging JavaScript code or working in ColdFusion, DW can really be a powerful tool.

Oh, and I love the Smurf Ray on the ADC home page:

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James Edmunds said on 01-27-2009 at 10:01 AM #
Ray, how good it does the hearts of us DW stalwarts to see you taking so well to this new version. I had been on the bandwagon for earlier versions because of the fluid handling of CSS, and DWCS4's power with Spry and other code tasks have just been beautiful evolutions of the application.
RobW said on 01-27-2009 at 10:57 AM #
Does this only work with static HTML tables, or could it be modified to work with dynamic tables generated in a CFOUTPUT based on a query?

Oh, and Smurf Ray FTW!
Raymond Camden said on 01-27-2009 at 11:02 AM #
It works with _ANY_ html, whether or not CF, PHP, or little elves make it. :)
Phillip Senn said on 01-27-2009 at 4:09 PM #
On page 2 you make no mention of SpryAssets being created in the root. I think that means that the finished subfolder is not pointing to SpryAssets because it's only going up one level.
Raymond Camden said on 01-27-2009 at 4:14 PM #
The finished subfolder was not meant to be run from that folder. You were meant to copy the file from finished into the new folder I had you create in the word doc.

Make sense?