Dreamweaver Create Master and Detail Pages Part 2 of 2
This is the second part of tutorial on creating Master and Detail pages, using Dreamweaver. In the second part of the tutorial, we will create the detail page, which is a page shows details of a given record.
1. Double-click detail.asp page, to open it
2. Select Bindings tab (under Applications panel)
3. Click + sign, and select Recordset (Query)
4. Enter recordset name of rsShowUser
5. Select Connection, eg. connTest
6. Select table, eg. test.user
7. click All option, to select all fields
8. select Filter of userid, select sign of =, select URL Parameter and enter userid, to filter by userid using url parameter called userid which was passed to detail.asp (see post on creating master page to see how to pass url parameter to detail.asp page)
9. click OK
10. Select Insert > Form > Form, to insert form
11. Change form name to fmUserEdit
12. Click inside the form element
13. Select Insert > Table, with 6 rows and 2 columns (the last row is to contain the submit button)
14. Enter names or labels for the fields in the first column, eg. username, password, first name, last name, occupation
15. Click cell in last row, second column, and select Insert > Form > Button
16. Click in first row, second column, and select Insert > Form > Text Field
17. select No label tag option, and click OK
18. Copy and paste this text field into the other cells in the second column, except the last row, which already has the submit button
19. Change the name of the text field to match that of the database table field, whose value they will later contain, eg. username, passwd, firstname, lastname, occupation, respectively
20. Select each of the text field, and click the Bind to Dynamic Source button for the Init Val
21. Double-click appropriate dynamic field to use for the current selected text field (repeat steps#20-21 for each of the text field, selecting the appropriate dynamic field for each text field)
22. Click within form element
23. Move cursor to just after opening form tag, before the starting table tag
24. Select Insert > Form > Hidden Field
25. Enter name for hidden field, eg. userid
26. Select Hidden Field element
27. click the Bind to Dynamic Source button for the Value
28. Double-click the userid field, to bind value of userid field to this hidden field
29. Select Server Behaviors tab (under Applications panel)
30. Click + sign, and select Update Record
31. Select table to update, eg. test.user
32. select record from: rsShowUser
33. select unique key of userid
34. click Browse button, for updating, go to field, and select master.asp
35. select form of fmUserEdit
36. click OK

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