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by ronniebellie » Sat Jun 27, 2015 6:03 pm
I'm a new comer to Livecode and have spent the last 4 days figuring out how to connect my Livecode app to a MySQL database and then display some of the results of that data in a Livecode data grid. I'm working on an educational conference (2 days long) that will be held in October of this year with about 800 attendees. There will be about 200 presentations and workshops. The presentation info is in a MySQL database and includes info such as name, institution, presentation title, presentations summary, biography, intended audience, topics addressed, etc.
I am having some success. The database connection is working fine. I am able to show certain data fields (short ones such as first name, last name, presentation title, room and time) in columns in a datagrid. Unfortunately, with the longer fields such as presentation summary, the info in the column does not wrap and it's one long horizontal line of about 35 words. What I want to do now is take it to the next step and be able to click on a presentation title in the data grid and and then for it to show more info about that particular presentation on another card such as presentation summary, biography, audience, topics addressed, etc. I don't even know where to begin with such a task.