Altova StyleVision 2025 Professional Edition

You can design a DB-based SPS just as you would design any other schema-based SPS, that is by dragging-and-dropping schema nodes from the schema window into the design document; by inserting static content directly in the design document; and by applying suitable formatting to the various design components. The following points, however, are specific to DB-based SPSs.

Creating a dynamic table for a DB table

To create a dynamic table for a DB table, do the following:

Note: You can also create a DB table in any other format, such as (contents).

Auto-add DB Controls

The Authentic | Auto-add DB Controls menu command or the toolbar icon toggles the auto-insertion of navigation controls for DB tables on and off. When the toggle is switched on, this toolbar icon has a black border; when the toggle is off, the toolbar icon has no border. If the Auto-insert toggle is on, DB Controls (see screenshot below) are automatically inserted when a DB table is dropped into the Design document. It is dropped, by default, immediately after the start tag of the table.

These controls enable the Authentic View user to navigate the records of the DB table in Authentic View. The first (leftmost) button navigates to the first record; the second button navigates to the previous record; the third button is the Goto Record button, which pops up the Goto Record dialog (screenshot below); it pops up a dialog that prompts you for the number of the record to which you wish to go; the fourth button navigates to the next record; and the fifth button navigates to the last record.

To manually insert the navigation controls in the Design document—which is useful if you wish to insert the controls at some other location than the default location—then do the following:

Inserting a DB Query button for

The DB Query button enables the Authentic View user to submit a DB query. This helps the user to build conditions for the records to be displayed in Authentic View. Query buttons can be inserted for individual DB tables anywhere between:

•The start tag of the DB table element and the start tag of the DB table element's (child) Row element.

•The end tag of the DB table element and the end tag of that table element's (child) Row element.

To insert a DB Query button in your Design document, do the following:

When it is clicked in Authentic View, the Query button will pop up the Edit Database Query dialog. This dialog is described in the Authentic View documentation.

Records displayed and records fetched

You can control the number of records displayed in Authentic View and the number of records fetched when the file is loaded. To make these settings, do the following:

Note:

•The number of rows displayed is applied to Authentic View.

•If a large number of tables is open in Authentic View, then the user will get an error message saying that too many tables are open. On the design side, you can reduce the number of tables that are open by reducing the number of rows displayed (because a row can contain tables). On the user side, the user can use queries to reduce the number of tables loaded into Authentic View.

AltovaRowStatus

In the XML Schema that is created from a DB, each table has an AltovaRowStatus attribute. The value of this attribute is automatically determined by StyleVision and consists of three characters, which are initialized to ---. If a row is modified, or a new row is added, the value is changed using the following characters.

These values can be used to provide users with information about rows being edited. The status information exists up to the time when the file is saved. After the file is saved, the status information is initialized (indicated by ---).

Formatting design document components

When records are added, modified, or deleted, StyleVision formats the added/modified/deleted records in a certain way to enable users to distinguish them from other records. Datatype errors are also flagged by being displayed in red. If you wish to maintain this differentiation, make sure that the formatting you assign to rows in a table do not have the same properties as those assigned by StyleVision. The formatting assigned by StyleVision is as follows: