Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 598)

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Dynamic sites, pages and web forms
Last updated 6/3/2015
Create custom record counters
You use individual record count behaviors to create custom record counters. Creating a custom record counter lets you
create a record counter beyond the simple, single row table inserted by the Recordset Navigation Status server object.
You can arrange design elements in a number of creative ways, and apply an appropriate server behavior to each
element.
The Record Count server behaviors are:
• Display Starting Record Number
• Display Ending Record Number
• Display Total Records
Before you create a custom record counter for a page, you must first create a recordset for the page, an appropriate page
layout to contain the dynamic content, and a recordset navigation bar.
This example creates a record counter that appears similar to the example in “Simple record counters.” In this example,
the text in sans-serif font represents the record count placeholders that will be inserted in the page. The record counter
in this example appears as follows:
Displaying records StartRow through EndRow of RecordSet.RecordCount.
1 In Design view, enter the counter’s text on the page. The text can be anything you want, for example:
Displaying records thru of .
2 Place the insertion point at the end of the text string.
3 Open the Server Behaviors panel (Window > Server Behaviors).
4 Click the Plus (+) button in the upper-left corner, and click Display Record Count. Within this submenu, select
Display Total Records. The Display Total Records behavior is inserted into the page, and a placeholder is inserted
where the insertion point was. The text string now appears as follows:
Displaying records thru of {Recordset1.RecordCount}.
5 Place the insertion point after the word records, and select the Display Starting Record Count Number from the
Server Behaviors > Plus (+) button > Record Count panel. The text string now appear as follows:
Displaying records {StartRow_Recordset1} thru of {Recordset1.RecordCount}.
6 Now place the insertion point between the words thru and of, and select the Display Starting Record Count Number
from the Server Behaviors > Plus (+) button > Record Count panel. The text string now appear as follows:
Displaying records {StartRow_Recordset1} thru {EndRow_Recordset1}
of{Recordset1.RecordCount}.
7 Confirm that the counter functions correctly by viewing the page in Live view; the counter is similar to the following
example:
Displaying records 1 thru 8 of 40.
If the results page has a navigation link to move to the next set of records, clicking the link updates the record
counter to read as follows:
Showing records 9 thru 16 of 40.
Use predefined data formats
Dreamweaver includes several predefined data formats that you can apply to dynamic data elements. The data format
styles include date and time, currency, numerical, and percentage formats.