http://dabbledb.com/help/index/ 2008-08-07T12:48:55-07:00 http://dabbledb.com/help/index/ http://dabbledb.com/help/index/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-06-02T07:57:22-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/link_to_edit_in_page?rev=1212418642&do=diff When you create a page that allows a user to create and/or edit entries, you can use a special URL that pre-fills a particular entry’s data into the page for editing. This allows you to, for example, email a user with a link to allow them to edit one particular entry alone. text/html 2008-06-02T07:37:28-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/pages?rev=1212417448&do=diff Pages allow you to give users access to view, edit and submit certain data without granting those users access to your entire application. Regular users can build pages from within Dabble DB and then publish them, either for the general public, or for specific Dabble DB users. Pages can contain views of data and/or forms for submitting/editing data.’’ text/html 2008-05-21T09:31:00-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/compact_view?rev=1211387460&do=diff Compact view is a way to get a summary of a set of data. It focuses on grouped entries, and is only available if you have them in the Table view. Grouping entries in a table view puts entries with a particular field value together. Compact view compresses each group into a single row and provides a summary of all of the entries in the group.’ text/html 2008-05-21T09:20:13-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/copy_application?rev=1211386813&do=diff You can copy an entire application to create a duplicate. This is useful if you want to maintain an archive of data as it existed at a certain point, or if you want to run an experiment on your data and keep a backup. To create a duplicate, click the Copy link below the name of the application on the Application list. text/html 2008-04-21T13:01:40-07:00 Dayna Szyndrowski http://dabbledb.com/help/index/import_data?rev=1208808100&do=diff Unless you are building a category from scratch, you will probably want to bring data from some other source into your application. The Import Data link allows you to do this; it is located on the category bar near the top of the screen when you are inside an application, and another link is also visible on the screen if your application contains no data.’’ text/html 2008-04-21T13:00:38-07:00 Dayna Szyndrowski http://dabbledb.com/help/index/comma-separated_values_export?rev=1208808038&do=diff Comma-separated values, or CSV, is a format you can use to export a view of data in Dabble. CSV format is useful when you want to bring data from Dabble into a spreadsheet application. It may also be useful for bringing data into another database system. text/html 2008-04-16T05:04:17-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/derived_fields?rev=1208347457&do=diff In Dabble, derived fields are fields which do not contain stored data but instead show data “derived” from some other source. Derived fields aren’t stored, but are calculated on-the-fly as they are shown to you, so they automatically reflect changes in your data.’’’’’’’’ text/html 2008-04-04T03:39:59-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/field_configuration?rev=1207305599&do=diff The field configuration allows you to change how a field works in your application. Notably: * you can change the name of the field, * you can change what type of field value the field contains, * you can edit the default value and configure particular settings depending on the field value ’ text/html 2008-03-18T07:32:04-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/importing_data_from_password-protected_web_sites?rev=1205850724&do=diff When importing data from a web site, you can include a username and password in the URL (web site address) to give Dabble DB access to password-protected web sites. The format is as follows: http://username:password@website.com/page.html Certain special characters, including most punctuation and any accented letters, must be URL-encoded. URL encoding uses two-digit hexadecimal numbers to replace the actual letters or punctuation. text/html 2008-03-12T18:27:42-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/value_filters?rev=1205371662&do=diff Value filters are used to focus a view on specific data by looking at Field values in your data. (They can also filter on Derived fields and Formulas.) They are used (usually in combination with Category filters) to limit what entries are shown in a view.’’’’ text/html 2008-03-05T06:54:30-07:00 Luke Andrews http://dabbledb.com/help/index/date_and_time_values?rev=1204728870&do=diff Date/time values are one of the types of Field values. When you configure a field to have a date/time value, Dabble will only allow the field to contain a calendar date or range of dates. The date may include a time of day, but does not require it. (A time with no date will be interpreted for the current date.)