Hi Vineet, If you already wrote the app in Foxpro then it should be much easier to port. Take each Foxpro screen and make something similar in Web2py?
I appreciate that might sound too facile, but when you tell me what's wrong with that idea, I might be able to see better where your difficulty lies. Regards, D On May 16, 9:09 pm, Vineet <vineet.deod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Villas, > Let me give a little background. > I have this entire massive application successfully running at client- > sites in Microsoft Visual FoxPro. > I have decided to shift from licensed platform to open-source > platform. > Chose Python for programming language & web2py for framework. > > My present task is not to define the app from scratch. > Because the database-logic, business logic, UI is already there. > I am trying to port the existing app to Python web framework. > > I am encouraged by your saying that --- > "Web2py has all the ingredients you need to split a big horrible job > in > smaller easier ones. It is extremely flexible for specifying queries > depending on your 'decision-tree'. " > > Pl. help me solve my said issue in 'web2py'. > > --Vineet > =============================================