Hello,
I am trying to design a system for people to submit a series of documents to a
project. I want users to have the ability to submit updates to any documents, so
that there should be a history (or sequence) for each document. I think in terms of
python data structures, so the relational database organization is not all that clear
to me (so I am trying to learn it!). I am using buzhug, but the concept should be
the same in any rdb.
So my conceptual structure would look something like:
project1:
document 1, document 1a, document 1b
document 2
document 3, document 3a
project 2:
document 4, document 4a
etc...
I want to be able to query the history of any single document, so I can get a list of
document 1, 1a, and 1b. or document 3 and 3a, etc...
So I have something like this (omitting a few lines, for clarity) to set up the
record structure:
users.create(('name',str),
('email',str))
project.create( ('description',str),
('label',str),
('creation_date',date),
('submitter',users))
documents.create(('filename',str),
('submit',date),
('submitter',users),
('type',str),
('project',project))
with this structure, I can get a project with a series of documents, but each
document doesn't have a history. My first thought (with Python data structures) is
to use a list, but that's not an rdb concept. Do I make something like:
document_sequences.create(('name',str),('project', project))
and then change documents so that it contains not only a project field, but a
document_sequence field? Am I thinking about this correctly?
Is there a resource I can read that goes through any of this?
thanks,
Brian Blais
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