I finally have an opportunity to not just play with the Knop demo, but to use it for a practical purpose within a project.

I started from the very beginning with a fresh install of Knop from source via SVN on Google Code. It all went without a hitch thanks to the nice docs.

Next I installed the Examples from Google into webroot/Examples. Those all went well, except for the 4-grid.lasso example. Data displays, but sorting and navigating have links that don't appear to function properly. I assume there is a conflict between the Examples and the default Knop installation?

Specific issue:
http://knop/Examples/4-grid.lasso

Has the First Name column link of:
http://knop/Examples/?-sort=firstname

And the paging of records:
Next >>
http://knop/Examples/-page=2
Last >|
http://knop/Examples/-page=3

Note that the default Demo installation of Knop and its navigation works properly.

Next I have a few questions that I couldn't easily find in the Nabble list archive.

Record Locking
----------------------------
To use Knop's record locking, one should add a lockfield to the table. However I am not clear about the default record locking procedure used in Knop, and how to implement it. Is it documented somewhere (other than trying to parse the code and make sense of it from within knop.lasso itself)?

I would like record locking to be done by user, and to have a variable expiration time (between 5-120 minutes). Additionally if the user abandons modifying a record--either by cancel, navigating elsewhere in the application, logging out or just walking away from the computer--then the record lock should be removed.

Here's sample sql for altering a table accordingly.

alter table `mytable`
add column `moddate` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
add column `keyfield` varchar(255) not null,
add column `lockfield` varchar(255) not null,
add index `keyfield` (`keyfield`),
add index `lockfield` (lockfield)
;

I found some references to record locking in the knop_database API docs (help.lasso).
-> clearlocks
-> deleterecord
-> getrecord
-> lockfield
-> lockvalue
-> lockvalue_encrypted
-> oncreate
-> saverecord


Form Fields and Fieldsets
----------------------------
I didn't see how to implement the following input parameters.

-maxlength
-tabindex
-accesskey

Also I wasn't clear on how to implement multiple fieldsets in a given form. I found how to do one fieldset per form:

$form->renderform(-legend);

Is this an example of multi-fieldsets per form?

$form->addfield(-type=fieldset(-value='Shipping Address'));
$form->addfield(-type=fieldset(-value='Billing Address'));


User Password Recovery/Reset
----------------------------
I remember this being discussed, but I don't know whether any implementation was created. Does this critter exist?


--steve

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