Operation Manual
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USING DREAMWEAVER
Making pages dynamic
Last updated 3/28/2012
More Help topics
“About recordsets” on page 530
Display and hide regions based on recordset results
You can also specify that a region be displayed or hidden based on whether the recordset is empty. If a recordset is
empty (for example, no records were found matching the query), you can display a message informing the user that
no records were returned. This is especially useful when creating search pages that rely on user input search terms to
run queries against. Similarly, you can display an error message if there is a problem connecting to a database, or if a
user’s user name and password do not match those recognized by the server.
The Show Region server behaviors are:
• Show If Recordset Is Empty
• Show If Recordset Is Not Empty
• Show If First Page
• Show If Not First Page
• Show If Last Page
• Show If Not Last Page
1 In Design view, select the region on the page to show or hide.
2 In the Server Behaviors panel (Window > Server Behaviors), click the Plus (+) button.
3 Select Show Region from the pop-up menu, select one of the listed server behaviors, and click OK.
More Help topics
“About database records” on page 555
“Create a dynamic table” on page 560
Display multiple recordset results
The Repeating Region server behavior lets you display multiple records from a recordset within a page. Any dynamic
data selection can be turned into a repeating region. However, the most common regions are a table, a table row, or a
series of table rows.
1 In Design view, select a region that contains dynamic content.
The selection can be anything, including a table, a table row, or even a paragraph of text.
To select a region on the page precisely, you can use the tag selector on the left corner of the document window. For
example, if the region is a table row, click inside the row on the
page, then click the rightmost <tr> tag in the tag
selector to select the table row.
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