Chapter 7. Creating the Application – Pages and Reports

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." – Aristotle

In the previous chapter, we created tables and set the table relationships for the appropriate fields. Having tables allows us to have a place to store the data, but it's not very user friendly in terms of data entry.

Imagine if you had to insert a record into the header table; you would have to exit the header table and go to the lines to insert the detail. It's possible, but your job would not be much fun. In addition, running the tables will display all the records within the table, so you would need to filter very carefully to see the details of a complaint. Possible, but not fun.

This is where pages come in. When we created our tables, we built some business logic through the table relationships and primary keys. With pages, we present the data from the table in an effective manner so the user can easily get the information...