<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 November 2010 09:02, Townsley, Andrew A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:townsley.andrew.a@edumail.vic.gov.au">townsley.andrew.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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I am still unclear about the new study design in what told I can use.<br>
I want a webdesign theme for the year. TO fit this into IT apps I can use U401 - database attached to a website?<br>
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A.Townsley<br>
<a href="mailto:townsley.andrew.a@edumail.vic.gov.au">townsley.andrew.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a><br>
Fountain Gate SC<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>My reading is this:<br><br><b>U3O2</b> is the mandated database task with a web flavour, but you don't have to create an <i>online</i> database with MySQL and PHP etc. It is just a normal database "to manipulate data typically acquired through websites" (e.g. customer orders that came in via a web form). The database itself does not have to be online.<br>
<br>The tool for <b>U4O1</b> is a choice between spreadsheets and databases to "create solutions to information problems". There is no mandated web component. If you want to solve an information problem that has a web element, you can. But you don't have to. You could do something like U3O2 again if you liked. Again, the database does not have to be online.<br>
<br>Note that if you use databases again in U4O1, there are some extra skills students need to exercise:<br><ul><li>import/export of data</li><li>format data for display</li><li>create and edit a range of forms, including different data types and controls</li>
<li>create and edit a range of formatted reports.</li></ul>Paula may have more to add to my theory ;-)<br><br>As a side note, it's dead-easy to put a Filemaker database only with Instant Web Publishing. Flick an option switch in the sharing setup and bingo! it's online. Sweet.<br clear="all">
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