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NebulaFCCreateSection

The HTML templates in Sample 1 are representative of templates found in common business applications. Many developers have taken advantage of nested include items, Begin/End blocks, and other features of FlashCONNECT which make web page generation easy for the BASIC developer. But most BASIC developers don't really create the web pages that will be used on web sites - or if they do, such web pages tend to look like they were put together by a programmer rather than by a web developer. Professional web sites are best developed by professional web site developers. Most web designers use WYSIWYG tools like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage. While tools like that are ideal for doing the master.headfoot.htm in Sample 1, they might have a problem with the code segments found in sample.htm in Sample 1, simply because the <html> and <body> tags are missing. Also, if the web designer can see the HTML in sample.htm, what they see would not reflect style sheet information which may be present in the master template. The web developer may need to create entire web pages, then break them down into individual items which can be used by FlashCONNECT. This is another example of how people are sometimes forced to change their way of thinking to accommodate technology.

Now look at Sample 2, a single item which comes directly from the web designer exactly as they would see it. The sample.htm template could be used by FlashCONNECT by building a single Subs variable and then using w3Print to print the entire page. But that doesn't address the fact that the final web page needs to contain many lines of detail. The FlashCONNECT developer could use the section  in w3HtmlInsert but what to do with the rest of the page without breaking that down into sections as well?

NebulaFCCreateSection works like w3HtmlInsertSection in that it allows you to retrieve a template section and perform substitutions, but it does not instantly add the resulting HTML code segment into a web page being built in a linear fashion. You can generate blocks of code, such as all of the line items for a given page, and then add them into your page using w3HtmlInsert or NebulaFCReplaceSection.

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