Finding a range of feet and inches.

[geod]

Hi All,

This is a height definition consisting of two fields, one for feet and one for inches. They are currently defined as text, but I am guessing they would be better as number.

Say you want to find every person between 5'11" and 6'3".

My idea was to have another field which calculates the height in total inches. But I am having trouble visualizing how to do the find. This range will probably not be the only find criteria for any typical find.

I cannot seem to conceptualize how to make this happen so that it is easy and transparent for the user.

Any ideas much appreciated.

geod

[Fitch]

I would not want to rely on the user to enter a "foot" mark, and then parse out feet and inches, but it could be done. I think using a simple inches number field is your best bet.

[comment]

You could use 4 global fields to enter the search criteria - MinFeet, MinInches, MaxFeet, MaxInches. Then calculate the range in inches and search the calculation field.

[geod]

thanks,

Fitch the foot and inch marks were just to describe the situation.

I was actually leaning towards having multiple fields like Comment described.

Comment would you put the global fields on the find form,

I am thinking users would be entering other criteria on the form as well as the height.

Then the script calculates and adds the data to the find before it is performed.

Sort of like that ?

[comment]

Yes.

[geod]

thanks !