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can create Forms, Reports, Operations, etc. using them. When you create active-link tables, you can either use a batch operation that creates multiple tables at once (using defaults for the various options), or you can create them one at a time, which allows you to customize the active-link table. If you choose the 'multiple' option, you can always go back and edit an individual active-link table's definition. This video shows how you can create active-link tables for all of the tables in a remote database in a single step. watch video This image has been scaled to fit on this page. Click for fullsize image Download Order Overview To see AJAX in action, visit our Sample/Tutorial Pages (these also ship with Alpha Five V9). http://afas.alphasoftware.com/SamplePagesv9/#whatsnew AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of web development techniques that increase responsiveness and interactivity of web applications. This is done by exchanging data with the server "behind the scenes" so that entire web pages do not have to be reloaded each time new data are fetched. See an example of this principle in the following video: Watch Video The Ajax technique is used to build web applications that have the speed and responsiveness you would typically find in desktop applications. Some well known examples of sites that use Ajax are Gmail (the email service from Google) and Netflix.com (the video rental service). Ajax is at the very cutting edge of web technologies. Unfortunately, the learning curve for implementing Ajax techniques is very steep. The programmer typically needs to have a solid working working knowledge of Javascript, the Document Object Model, XML and HTML. Until now... Alpha Five Version 9 Platinum includes the Alpha Five AJAX Javascript Library, which greatly simplifies the amount of Javascript you need to know in order to succesfully implement Ajax techniques yourself. To further simply the job, Alpha Five also includes a collection of working Ajax examples (including a powerful Ajax tree control and cascading lookups) that you can easily customize for your own application. With these examples and this robust Javascript library, you can build your own robust web applications using Ajax techniques, without the steep learning curve. This image has been scaled to fit on this page. Click for fullsize image The example above shows a Javascript tree control that ships with Alpha Five V9 Platinum Edition. In this case, a customer table stored in SQL Server is sorted by Country and City. When you choose a particular country, the page automatically shows you cities for that country in which there are customer records. By clicking on a particular city, you can see individual customers. Because this page uses Ajax techniques, only the data you actually need to see are being sent to the browser. This means that browing a table of millions of records could seem instantaneous - since there is no need to send the millions over the Internet. The only ones sent are the ones you want to see. Download Order View Contents Checkout Product Tour ( Computer to) See Features that are New to Version 9! Try Now Buy Now Try Now Buy Now Alpha Five Feature Overview Previous Page 4 of 21 Next Form Design A form is the basic interface between the application user and the database. Forms are used to display, enter or change data in a table or set. They can also contain graphics, text, style elements and ActiveX controls. The form below makes use of an ActiveX component to display a web browser within the form. Based on the data in the fields, the browser monebaggasse