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From: Michael Hipp <Michael@Hipp.com>

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> I believe you answered my question. But just to make sure...

>

> The problem with a lot of frameworks is that they have wonderful save()

> and load() methods and such. But as soon as save() needs to work on

> multiple tables (or even multiple records at one time within one table)

> then all of a sudden the built-in helpers are no help and you're back to

> writing fully custom SQL and managing transactions and such as if there

> was no framework at all.

>

> Knowing that lots of my stuff is just like this, will I be glad I'm in

> Dabo or will it seem like I'm just back to making calls to psycopg2 on

> my own?

>

> Thanks,

> Michael

>

I good place to start is:

http://paul.dabodev.com/doc/api/dabodoc/

Look at the section on dBizobj and methods save() and saveAll(). I found it instructive to look at the corresponding code in ~/dabo/biz/dBizobj.py. I think you will find the Framework does what you want.

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