Creating Detail Pages with navigation links

Bulding Detail Pages with Navigation Links

Sometimes, it could be useful to include navigation links in our detail pages, so users could browse through the entire range of registers without having to go back to the master page each time.

P.eg. Imagine an on-line photo album featuring a master page with thumbnails of all our uploaded photos and a detail page with a larger photo. Using the current master-detail page set builder included in UD4 is completely impossible to create detail pages with links to previous/next records, since the ASP scripts included in the detail page filter the recordset so it only includes a single register.

But there´s an extremely easy way to solve this, with no need of handcoding. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Build a Master Page wich links to Detail Pages

Develop the master page as usual, including the proper links to the detail page by selecting the necessary URL parameter to be passed on. In this example, the "Go To Detail Page" is setup to pass the Column "IDPhoto" value as parameter for the Detail Page.

Step 2: Build a Detail Page with a non-filtered recordset

Build the detail page now. First, create the recordset ("RsFotoDetail" for this example), but DO NOT FILTER the recordset as usual. Leave all these fields empty so the recordset includes all registers.

At this moment, our master page passes to the detail page the desired parameter, but our detail page do not display the information associated to the parameter´s value. We need to filter it OUTSIDE the Recordset definition.

Let´s see how to perform this operation in Step 3 >>>