Programming instructions

Enhancing the Trip Maintenance application 93
5 In the Trip Search Result page, click the link for Riding the Rockies.
The properly formatted Trip Detail page appears:
Creating the main application page from the Trip Detail page
To this point in the tutorial, you created a very useful drill-down query facility. Compass
Travel trip coordinators can produce lists required by management and easily locate and
display information about any trip. There are several requirements that were identified in
Lesson 1, however, that you have not addressed: the ability to browse through the Trips
table, and the ability to add, delete, and edit trip information.
The trip coordinator must be viewing the details of a specific trip to edit trip information
or delete a trip. The Trip Detail page provides this trip-specific detail information.
Therefore, you will use the Trip Detail page as the main Trip Maintenance application
page.
You will modify the Trip Detail page so that it can act as a main switchboard to
accomplish this additional functionality. The Trip Detail page shows information about a
single trip. You will convert the Trip Detail page into the main application page by
adding the following functionality:
• Navigation buttons to browse the database
• Database maintenance buttons to edit, delete, or add new trips
• An additional button to launch the search facility