{"id":2301,"date":"2014-12-18T19:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2014-12-18T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:42:24","slug":"odbc-front-page-database-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/odbc-front-page-database-connector\/","title":{"rendered":"ODBC Front Page Database Connector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheads\">The three basic files needed to get started are shown in the next sections. This sample provides instructions in creating a query form that can be used to retrieve information from your Image database using most browsers and Microsoft&#8217;s IIS (Internet Information Server) and FrontPage.<\/p>\n<p>Download this sample: <a href=\"http:\/\/minisoft.com\/download\/odbc32\/odbc32n.zip\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HTTP<\/span><\/span><\/a><a name=\"htx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheads\"><strong>The HTX file<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create the results (.htx) page.<\/li>\n<li>The field (Image Item) names appear in place of the &lt;%name%&gt; sequences in the result form<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n08.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2283\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n08.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n08\" width=\"380\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"3\">Use the saved form when creating the (.idc) file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2286\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n05.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n05\" width=\"380\" height=\"271\" \/><\/div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p class=\"subheads\"><a name=\"IDC\"><\/a><strong>The IDC file<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create an Internet Database Connector file using the wizard<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2285\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n04.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n04\" width=\"380\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"2\">Reference the DataSource that is configured on the server as a System DSN.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the SQL statement for the query with a reference to the query form field that will be substituted in when the query is executed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2286\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n05.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n05\" width=\"380\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"4\">Assign a default value if needed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2287\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n06.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n06\" width=\"380\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p class=\"subheads\"><strong><a name=\"HTM\"><\/a>The HTM file<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a page with a simple query form<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2288\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n09.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n09\" width=\"380\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"2\">Set &#8216;Internet Database Connector&#8217; as the Form Handler type.<a href=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n02.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2289\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n02.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n02\" width=\"380\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"3\">Enter the name of an Internet Database Connector File:<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2290\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n03.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n03\" width=\"377\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<li value=\"4\">Set the name and properties of the query form text box.<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2291\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n07.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n07\" width=\"356\" height=\"197\" \/>\n<\/ol>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p class=\"subheads\"><strong>\u00a0<a name=\"appears\"><\/a>How this sample appears:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n09.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n10.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2292\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_n10.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_n10\" width=\"380\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three basic files needed to get started are shown in the next sections. This sample provides instructions in creating a query form that can be used to retrieve information from your Image database using most browsers and Microsoft&#8217;s IIS (Internet Information Server) and FrontPage. Download this sample: HTTP The HTX file Create the results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}