Dreamweaver, Spry and an Access database

Hi again Dier02,

Can you be more specific about how you expect the application to work?

I want to be able to change what shows up in the Spry by linking each section of the accordion menu to a database item - the picture is linked to a picture item in an access database and the text can be changed in a table entry.  Does that sound right?

Do you have PHP, Perl, or Coldfusion?

You would write a loop to create the tabs for your menu from a DB query using a scripting language.

Another option could be to use XML files instead of an access database and to create the tabs / content using
spry data regions.

The latter sounds good but how would I do that?

Here is a tutorial on XML:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp

Its very similar to HTML with tags, but XML will not work at all unless ALL your tags match up.

Here is a link to Adobe's sample on XML & Spry Data Regions:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/data_set_overview/

Note: You can export from Excel to XML format & I am pretty sure you can save your data from Access directly into an XML file as well.  

Lemme know if you have any Q's.