Date index for Jul 2003

Howdy,

I have noticed two things in Achievo that I thought I would write a note
about to possibly help enhance and support the efforts of other people
working with it. One, is it would be really helpful if themes relied
completely on their attached styles sheets for their visual display
preferences. I built a user customization function, that makes it easy to
override a style, but does little good for hard coded colors and fonts. I
would guess this would effect any like efforts. Two, I found a really
annoying problem with MySql that Achievo seems to react strangely to. MySql
allows blank spaces in field names. Which really sucks, when you mistakenly
cut and paste a field name from a document. In Achievo, the field does not
always throw an error as I would have expected about a wrong field name but
nevertheless fails to insert data when you submit the form. In my case the
field was set to be varchar 6. In the form view this setting makes all the
other resulting form fields appear smaller. This was not the case with this
field's related form element, which is what tipped me off that it was
somehow set wrong. It was only after I went to delete the table and created
SQL script to recreat it that I noticed the space. When I removed the space
everything seemed to self correct. Submits worked fine and the display
seemed normal. Since this is a MySql (bug/mistake on my part), I am not sure
if this is something to report to the bug system.

Robert Beguiristain