magnuna Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 i have 2 questions: i am in the process of creating a databse of archival material in a museum. one of my fields is "category," which has a number of possible entries (e.g., tourism, current events, antiquities, etc.) 1) when a do a find search in category i would like to save the found set as a separate layout in the main file, or something similar, so that i don't have to keep doing the find command. is this possible? i also have a "period" field which i've set up as a date field. a lot of the material is from newpapers, so i have a full date (e.g., june 7, 1977), but for others the date is unknown, or i only have the month and year. 2) is there a way to set this up so i can sort by period and have the month/year entries fall in the appropriate place, with the unknowns at the end? also, using the date field doesn't display the month/year and unknown entries properly - how do i fix this? thanks very much for any and all help!! magnuna ps - i checked out the following link, but unfortuntaely don't have a program to open the attached files - which may tell me what i need for the 1st question http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB31&Number=155023
Søren Dyhr Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 Saved searches isn't particular beginners stuff, but indeed posible: http://previews.filemakermagazine.com/videos/544/SavedSearches_full.mov --sd
Lee Smith Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 Hi magnuna, You said: ... unfortuntaely don't have a program to open the attached files ... The files are in Zipped format 99% of the time and can be opened by a couple of different programs including Stuffit Expander. You can download a free copy of Stuffit Expander from several sites, HERE is allume's site HTH Lee
magnuna Posted May 4, 2005 Author Posted May 4, 2005 oi! you weren't kidding. this may be more difficult than it's worth, but if i can figure out the whole writing scripts part, then it would be awfully useful. thanks for the link!
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