Quote:Bob
I think that your point is good but would it not have been better for them to have ray create a data dictionary for us to use. It seems stupid that it was not included with the original product and now it is being sold on inside sesame.com for 50 bucks. A game is nice a tool is better.
I do not mean to be argumentative (especially to you Bob) This is just my opinion.
SunnyJenna,
A quick translation and update of an existing Q&A database game is on a completely different order of magnitude than the creation of a full Database Documenter. The Database Documenter is next on our list of external utilities to create. We didn't "have" Ray do this. Ray saw the opportunity to do something nice for a Forum member and thought it would be fun, so he took some time between answering emails and phone calls and knocked this out.
A "data dictionary" was not part of the initial release because it is not of much use to a large portion of our user base. Therefore, it would have added small value to most of our users, while adding a significant amount of development time. We figured they would rather not wait.
The Database Documenter will be made available as an external utility so that those consultants and developers who want to generate such a thing can do so, without forcing those (the majority) who would never use such a thing to wait for it or pay for it. Many of you here on the Forum are power users or developers. Most of our users are not.
Lantica and Inside Sesame are two different organizations. Inside Sesame took the time to sit down with SBasic and write a nice routine that examines a particular Form and creates a web page about it. If you do not want to pay the $50 for the utility code available from Inside Sesame, you can simply write the SBasic yourself. All the tools that were used to create that utility code are also available to you.