User Guide - NetObjects Fusion

Publishing Data
834
If you create a data object from an external source—for example, from a Microsoft
Access database—and then update or change the external source, you must
republish the site to update the data. For example, suppose your backpack data
object referenced 50 records originally and the external database is increased with
25 new records. After you republish your site, the data object references 75 records,
the backpack data list contains 75 rows, and there are 75 stacked pages.
After you create a data list on a page, NetObjects Fusion generates the first stacked
page. You create the initial Layout of how all stacked pages look on the first
stacked page. When you create the Layout of the first stacked page, the remaining
stacked pages automatically inherit the same Layout. Changes you make in the
Layout in any one stacked page affect the Layout of all stacked pages in that set.
The following illustration shows how the data list page and its child stacked pages
appear in Site view.
Data list page
Stacked pages
Publishing Data
In general, when you work with data publishing, you follow this process:
1. Create a data object.
2. Create a data list.
3. Design a set of stacked pages.
When you create a data list, you create the stacked page for the data object. On this
stacked page you create the Layout to be used for all the pages in the stack,
including the field data you want to display on the page.
• If you are storing data internally, you enter the field data on the stacked page
itself.
• If you are using an external source, the field data is drawn from the external
database, spreadsheet, or ASCII text file.