DBWEB: Updates Not Working Using Default dbWeb Documents

• Microsoft dbWeb version 1.1

SYMPTOMS

When using the dbWeb default HTML update document, if you click the Submit Update button, a blank screen appears on your browser and no success or failure message is displayed for the update. When you look in the underlying table for the update, you notice that the data has not been changed.

CAUSE

The new caching functionality built into dbWeb version 1.1 caused the updates not to work properly.

RESOLUTION

There are two ways to work around this problem:

1. Create a custom DBX to perform the update.

2. Download dbWeb version 1.1a from the Microsoft dbWeb internet site at the following Web address:

        http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/dbweb
   

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft dbWeb version 1.1. This problem does not occur in dbWeb versions 1.0 or 1.1a.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. Start the dbWeb Administrator.

2. Highlight the Employees schema, and then click Modify Schema.

3. Click the Schema tab, and then click to select the Update check box under "Allow actions on data."

4. Click the Tabular tab, highlight the Employees.Employee ID field, and then click the Properties button.

5. In the properties sheet, select Column Properties.

6. Click the Automatic Link URL property, and then click the Build button (the button with three dots).

7. Click the Link Type tab, and in the "Automatic Link from (Employees.Employee ID)" dialog box, select Drill Down.

8. Click the Information tab, and then click the New Criteria button.

9. In the "Automatic Link Drill Down" dialog box, click Employee ID, and then click OK.

10. In the "Automatic Link from (Employees.Employee ID)" dialog box, click OK.

11. Close the properties sheet, and then click Apply.

12. Click the Ins/Upd/Del tab, and click the Employees table in the "Data columns in selected tables."

13. Click the Add All button.

    NOTE: You will receive an error that states "Photo is a binary object. Binary large object fields are not supported." Updates, Inserts, or Deletes don't support binary large objects. Click the OK button to continue.

14. In the "Update data columns" section, click the Employees.Employee ID field, and then click Properties.

15. In the properties sheet, select Column Properties.

16. Click the Key property, and then click "Key (counter)."

17. Close the properties sheet, and then click Apply.

18. Open your internet browser and type the URL to the Employees schema. Drill down to just one record. Make sure you click to select the Update option, and then click the Submit button. Change the record, and then click Submit Update. Note that your browser returns a blank page with no errors. If you view the source for the page (if your browser is capable), you'll see that the only tag on the page is </HTML>.

REFERENCES

For more information about Creating Custom Update DBXs, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q154867
   TITLE     : DBWEB: How to Create a Custom Update DBX

For more information about DBX tags, search for "DBX tag formats," and then "DBX tag formats" using the Microsoft dbWeb 1.1 Help Search for Help on.

For more information about DBX editor, search for "DBX editor," and then "DBX Editor" using the Microsoft dbWeb 1.1 Help Search for Help on.

Keywords          : DbwebUsage
Version           : 1.1
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbworkaround