Making your Page Dynamic
Please follow these instructions closely and use the images to give you a visual representation of each step. if in doubt just study the picture and copy it.
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Step 1. In the action builder click on the + so the drop down menu appears and select Load records |
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2. When the Load record wizard opens click next>> so you can
select what information you want to be loaded in to the page. First we
will load the menu, from the Table drop down select the Dynamic_Menu then
with the Dynamic_menu field selected click the 
so it is transferred to the selected box and then click on Finish |
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| Your action builder will now look like this. Follow step 1 so we can add a new Load Record for the Page Content. | Step
3. This time select the Page_Content table from the drop down and
select Page_Name and page_Content to be transferred to the selected box
when you click on
then click Next >> |
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| Step 4. Now we tell it we want to load from the database where the Page_name is equal to the GET page. So make your selections to match the picture above and when you select the GET type in page in the dropdown below it. Then using the down arrow add it to the Where: box. When you first try to do this you will get a warning message, OK it and click the down arrow again so the wizard looks like above. Then click on Finish and end the wizard. | Your Action builder should now look like above. You have 2 load record actions, one for your menu and the second for the page content. |
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| Step 5. Now we are going to make MENU dynamic, mouse over where you typed MENU on your page and double click so it becomes blocked out, then from the Format menu select Set Dynamic Value | Step 6. From the dropdowns select as above, this will then change where you typed MENU in to a dynamic value and display the contents of dynamic_menu which is stored in the database. Click OK to finish, if you get a warning message just ignore it, it is only telling you, you are adding a new item. |
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| Step 7. As in step 5 now select CONTENT on your web page so it becomes blocked out and from the format menu select Set Dynamic Value, this time select as above, to load from Page_Content and from the second drop down choose page_Content. Click OK to finish and ignore any warning message | Your web page should now look like above. All you now need to do is export your web page and put it on a web server or computer that runs PHP script. To export click on File then Export. |
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NOTE: remember where your page will be exported to. if you are running IIS easyGen will export the file to Inetpub\wwwroot\easyGenEvaluationProject Otherwise it will export to a directory called easyGenEvaluationProjectExport which can be found in your My Documents directory |
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