Selective "Found" List

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by Mike McD:

Has anyone created a page for printing out specific fields of selected records within a found set? It would be similar to an order page but with a convenient button to send only current records (one at a time) to a list which could be renewed at any time. Intended for research and compilation of video clips.

Any help would be appreciated, as I can only figure out how to enter those records separately, not save or send them to another layout.

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What you could do is to have a screen in list view, and then have a button on each record. The script attached to the button could paste the record's PrimaryID (which you better have) into a global. Once all the records are selected, you can have another button which uses a self relationship between the global and the PrimaryID and uses the Goto Related Record to go to the records that are related to the global.

[seracious]

Thanks for the reply, but wouldn't that limit me to one Primary ID for all records. I thought I could have only one value in a global, but this function must mark the various selected IDs of the found batch. I like the idea of selecting record by record, which wouldn't even need to be in list mode. But this would need to work across several searches, marking records along the way, then a final printout of the selected records. The print layout is easy enough, but the storage of the records worries me. Plus, I would need to start fresh for a new job, clearing the global. Am I mistaken about the single value of a global?

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by Mike McD:

Thanks for the reply, but wouldn't that limit me to one Primary ID for all records...Am I mistaken about the single value of a global?

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You can fill a Global field in the same manner as any other field. Assuming that you PrimaryID was a set of 5 alpha-numberic characters, the global (Text) could look like this:

A12bA

B87cZ

RJ12f

and so on. Just make sure that both the PrimaryID and the Global are text. I ALWAYS make sure to make my IDs to be text fields, for this an a thousand other reasons.

[seracious]

What if my Primary ID is Indexed, actually the combination of two other text fields (5 digit Reel #, 3 digit clip # - ex. 00001001 refers to Reel 00001, Clip 001)? The ID remains unique for each item but is not a single text field all its own.

[seracious]

Has anyone created a page for printing out specific fields of selected records within a found set? It would be similar to an order page but with a convenient button to send only current records (one at a time) to a list which could be renewed at any time. Intended for research and compilation of video clips.

Any help would be appreciated, as I can only figure out how to enter those records separately, not save or send them to another layout.