Generate Database Action

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Hi, does anyone know if there is an update to Walter’s workflow for creating a database? In the screencast link below there is mention of an upcoming example that was a little more Freeway centric.

We are looking into this as we are wanting to keep in the freeway workflow and not start down the road of a system like Joomla and such. We have a customer who is wanting the ability to upload weekly audio files with a title and brief description. We are looking for a way to be a little more custom in the presentation, not just a generic blog post with audio link. Would like to use a dedicated HTML 5 audio player like Pickle Player. Walt’s approach seems to be the right way to go, any thoughts?

Regards, Dave

http://freewaycast.com/screencasts/view/85-generate-a-database-application

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I haven’t done much with Generate since I posted that screencast.
There have been about 250 downloads of the screencast, I’m not sure
how many downloads of the code bundle at Github, but probably similar.
If you wanted to go down that path, you may have some fat-book
shopping at Pragmatic Programmers or OReilly ahead of you. It’s not
exactly an Action and a click click there and you’re done.

What it does do is create a sort of “scaffold” view of a database
table or a collection of related tables. It does that very neatly.

But then it expects you to be able to open up the code it wrote, read
through it, nod thoughtfully, and start coding on the parts that make
your application special. Like file uploads. Or custom view code
written with Freeway.

There is an Action in the bundle you download from Github that
simplifies making view partials within Freeway. But like
TemplateHelper, it works best when you know what you’re doing, code-
wise.

Walter

On Jul 7, 2011, at 5:02 PM, TeamSDA wrote:

Hi, does anyone know if there is an update to Walter’s workflow for
creating a database? In the screencast link below there is mention
of an upcoming example that was a little more Freeway centric.

We are looking into this as we are wanting to keep in the freeway
workflow and not start down the road of a system like Joomla and
such. We have a customer who is wanting the ability to upload weekly
audio files with a title and brief description. We are looking for a
way to be a little more custom in the presentation, not just a
generic blog post with audio link. Would like to use a dedicated
HTML 5 audio player like Pickle Player. Walt’s approach seems to be
the right way to go, any thoughts?

Regards, Dave

http://freewaycast.com/screencasts/view/85-generate-a-database-application

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HI Walt, fully understand this would not be a click click solution. Your video was very informative and if we were to go down the road of database coding, not just markup and styling, we are aware of the learning curve.

Hopefully Freeway will embrace ways to bring this level of dynamic functionality closer to the design community, in the mean time you and the others like you are highly valued contributors to the Freeway community. Thank you for taking the time to make this screencast and we will most likely be looking into this further.

Regards, Dave

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This suggestion puts you back in the CMS arena so it probably isn’t what
you’re looking for but I setup something like this using Perch
http://grabaperch.com/ for someone with a similar need. I wrote a
custom template to handle the file upload, media player and description
then added a little styling and voila. It doesn’t look generic, it fits
in with the site aesthetic and can be easily modified anytime. Of course
in my case the entire site is under Perch control but I don’t see why
you couldn’t just put the one page under Perch if that’s all you want.

Todd

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We have a customer who is wanting the ability to upload weekly audio files with a title and brief description. We are looking for a way to be a little more custom in the presentation, not just a generic blog post with audio link.

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