Feature

Benefit

Built in Visual FoxPro (version 8) 

Tightly integrates with the Promatrix components

Designed using the latest OOP methods

Designed to change as quickly as the IT industry

Insures your computer is correctly configured and correctly un installed with an easy to use wizard

High Level Functions

Allowing you to use simple commands such as ITDS.oTable.Save()

And letting the ITDS worry about the other 500 or so lines of code required to carry out all the other operations associated with this action

Integrated Promatrix Data Integrity and Business Rules as specified by the ProMatrix data dictionary

• Checks to make sure that an access block to the data has not been turned on by the administrator
• Checks to make sure that the user id and password are valid
• Determines all associated tables with the operation and makes sure they’re available
• Assigns a valid PK value if it's a new record
• Assigns any default values as specified in the Data Dictionary
• Applies any string formatting to fields as specified in the Data Dictionary
• Applies data integrity and validation for all fields as determined by the Data dictionary
• Begins a transaction so that if errors occur all data changes can be rolled back
• Commits the data changes or if errors occur roll back changes
• Report errors to the error property of the object. 

Not bad for one line of code on your behalf!

Error Logging 

Flexible Returned Data formats

Data formats returned include:

• An Internal FoxPro Cursor

• An object representation of the record

• Collection object

• XML

Multi-table Queries

The ITDS allows you to perform queries over multiple tables in the one 'Query' method

HTTP communications for global access

Comes with built in HTTP communication so you can communicate with you data either locally on the LAN OR, by simply calling a method, you can carry out operations over HTTP.

Extensive Documentation

InfoToday provides documentation with all it's products along with on-line documentation on it's web site.