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Quick Store Tutorial 17
Commerce Template: This template is used for the shopping cart and checkout
pages. It contains a background, logo and two linked images for navigation. All
of the pages shown under this template in the Templates tab site tree inherit
these elements.
For more information about templates check the index of the Drumbeat User’s
Guide or Help for the words in bold.
Content Tables
Content Tables organize media as well as give you a visual representation of
databases. Expose the Content Center (click the Content Center button). Click
the dropdown arrow and you’ll see that a number of Content Tables have already
been set up in the site.
All of these Content Tables, with one exception, are ODBC-driven, with the
content coming from queries to the database that drives the site. The exception is
the Shopping Cart Data-Map. This table, whose initial content comes from a
CSV file, provides a bridge to the database so that user selections can be retrieved
from and passed to the server-side shopping cart.
When using database content in Drumbeat, you must first create a query to the
database (using the Query Manager). Then you create an ODBC Content Table
based on that query. The ODBC Content Table provides a visual representation of
the database content so it can be used in design. To use the data on a page, a
Recordset is added to the page, which is then bound to the appropriate Content
Table. If you are new to Drumbeat, you can find an explanation of the process of
creating queries and ODBC Content Tables and using recordsets in Chapter 15 of
the Drumbeat User’s Guide.
Note: Not all of the databases have content, such as the Customers and Orders databases.
They are used to provide field references that are used when adding customer information
and placing orders when the site is deployed.