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CoreData document based app with single source
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CoreData document based app with single source


  • Subject: CoreData document based app with single source
  • From: Mayo Jordanov <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:51:49 -0800

Hello,

I'm trying to figure a few things out about Document Based apps. I understand normally there would be a file per document. For the sake of example, if I make a simple invoice application, there will be a CoreData datafile (XML/Binary/SQLite) with some invoice information such as date, customer address, and items.

Now, how would this work if I wanted to have a single CoreData datafile with multiple invoices in it? This solution makes more sense to me as it's much easier to search, enforce unique invoice numbers, etc. From what I can tell the CoreData Document Based app project template expects to have file per document.

I can think of few ways around this, such as putting a small table of existing invoices on top of each document, and thus being able to select from multiple invoices (if I want to look in past) or create a new invoice. Another one would be to make a separate window that could be opened from the application menu where invoices could be looked up and then programatically generate MyDocument windows/ objects with each invoice, however wouldn't this be breaking the Document based design? Should I not be using document based design for this at all?

I'm not looking for code or anything here, just trying to solve this at conceptual level...

Thanks in advance,
mayo

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