Improve the Contact Management Application

In this part of the tutorial, you will enhance the web-application already created by adding features that will help save time and make it more user-friendly and interactive.

The following topics of the tutorial are optional, as they only add features to the already finished application. They will teach you how to:

• Add a base contact together with the company's addition to the database.
• Enhance the company add form so that more contacts can be added right away.
• Keep in touch with contacts by automatically sending birthday greetings.
• Keep count of each company's contacts by displaying their number aside the company name, in the main listings.

If you have the MX Kollection 3 bundle installed, then you have all the needed tools. Otherwise, the following separate products should be installed on your computer in order to complete this tutorial section:

• ImpAKT

• MX Send E-mail

• MX Query Builder

The estimated completion time for this section is about 30 minutes, depending on your authoring knowledge with Macromedia Dreamweaver (MX or MX 2004) and MX Kollection 3.

This section contains the following topics:

• Insert both company and main contact

• Add more contacts after company insert

• Send automatic birthday greeting

• Display number of contacts per company