Powerhouse 4GL RDBMS Question - Subitems

[Brian Schalme]

	This is true. PowerHouse gets the schema information directly from the 
database (such as Oracle). All you can do is specify default formatting 
and edit information with the ELEMENT statement.

		Brian Schalme
		Airspeed Consulting
		http://www.airspeed.ca


Charles Finley wrote:

> With IMAGE DB you can define Subitems in Powerhouse which is nothing else as
> using one single field out of the database and defining a data structure
> within Powerhouse for this single DB field using the PHD (Powerhouse
> Dictonary).
> 
> Example:
>      Field in IMAGE DB:      X CHAR(10)
>      Subitems in Powerhouse using field X of IMAGE DB:
>                        subitem1 CHAR(3)
>                        subitem2 CHAR(3)
>                        subitem3 CHAR(4)
> 
> We are speaking with someone who has  told us that they have tried to do
> this with a relational DB and learned that is under the impression that
> Powerhouse does not support this ability to overlay fields   for a
> relational DB, only for IMAGE DB. The client went on to say that you cannot
> define Subitems in the Powerhouse Dictonary for a relational DB.
> 
> Can someone confirm this?
> 
> Charles Finley
> Transformix Computer Corporation
> (760)-439-3146 
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