How do you find empty global fields?

[Ellen]

As the mailing list database I use continues to grow, I would like to weed out names that are no longer relevant. To decide which records to delete, I would like to find records for all the people who have an empty Event field. However, because the Event field in each individual record is actually a "global field," I cannot do a find on that field. Do you have any suggestions for another way to find records with empty global fields? Will I need to change the database, so that we can repeat this process in the future?

[Chuck]

Global fields have the same value for every record in the database file, which is why you can't search on them. There is never a need. If the global field is empty, then it is empty for every record in the database.

If the data you are looking at is different for every record, then either the field is not a global field, OR you are navigating from record to record with a script that sets the global field to the real contents of the record. If that is the case, you need to find out what field the information is really kept in and search that field.

Chuck