Q&A
| Q1: | Since guests to the Web site might make obscene comments in their guestbook entries, I'd like to be able to not have a guestbook entry displayed on the Web page until I approve it. How could I go about adding this functionality? |
| A1: | To add this functionality, you would need to update the data model, adding a Show column to the GuestbookEntries table. This column could be of type bit, which essentially is a Boolean since it allows for only two values, 0 and 1.
The idea here is that a guestbook entry with a 0 value in its Show column has yet to be approved, while one with a 1 has been approved. Since you do not want a guestbook entry to display until it has been approved, when inserting a new guestbook entry from the AddEntry.aspx Web page, ... |
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