Update to Universal Capitalizer for FMP

[David Kachel]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JAN 23, 2006

UNIVERSAL CAPITALIZER FOR FMP CUSTOM FUNCTION - VERSION 1.0v2 RELEASE

Salt Lake City, UT--JANUARY 23, 2006--David Kachel/Codemasters Workshop -- publishers of AutoNavigator for FileMaker Pro--Today announced an update, version 1.0v2, of their free UNIVERSAL CAPITALIZER CUSTOM FUNCTION SET FOR FMP.

This update fixes a minor bug that causes the professional title "D.D.S." to format improperly under some circumstances.

It also adds a new override feature; the double-tilde (~~).

The double-tilde will cause any text following it to appear in all caps. This is useful for such things as professional affiliations that are generally capitalized and do not use periods, such as: AIA (American Institute of Architects) or ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects).

Following Codemasters Workshop's tradition of "we'll only do it if it's impossible", UNIVERSAL CAPITALIZER is a first-of-its-kind custom function set (3 interdependent custom functions) that finally solves the annoying problem of automatically capitalizing and correctly formatting name and address fields.

Just enter your text, ignore the "Shift" key, and Universal Capitalizer will do the work for you. It correctly formats names like McNally, O'hare, and vanderVeen, knows the difference between Dr. and D.R., and can distinguish the initials N.E. in a name from the direction NE in an address. Now your FMP databases can have the same sophisticated automatic capitalization features found in high-end contact managers. And everything Universal Capitalizer does can be overridden by your users, or altered by you.

Don't put up with the frustration of the "Title Case" or "Proper ()" functions mangling your user's input, or of being forced to use the shift key in every name and address field, ever again.

Best of all, the Universal Capitalizer demo is free to download and use in your solutions. Just copy the three custom functions into your solution. Call the "universalCapitalizer ()" custom function as an auto-enter custom function from your field(s) and your done.

UNIVERSAL CAPITALIZER FOR FMP is available for immediate download at:

www.codemastersworkshop.com/downloads.html

Publisher:

David Kachel / Codemasters Workshop is the publisher of

AutoNavigator for FileMaker Pro. He has more than 14 years

experience in designing and building custom solutions in FileMaker Pro.

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[BruceJ]

This is wonderful!

I have been using a very simple CF that just pulled out the spaces and paragraph returns in names, but this is a much smarter solution.

I did discover a quirk though. If a person enters "dr." it returns lowercase "dr.". It seems all I needed to do was add another part into the name subroutine that included:["+dr+" ; "+Dr.+"] ; ["+!dr.+" ; "+Dr.+"] ;

and all was well.

I may have only needed the last one, but I didn't wrap my brain around the entire calculation so I added the whole thing. It dosent' seem to do any harm and it works so I left it.