Victor, If I understand things correctly you essentially want to "copy" a record and create a new record with a different/new catalogue number. I don't know if you intend to do this in bulk or in on an individual basis but for starters here's what I'd do.
Basically what you want to do is write a report that includes every real field in the panel. save it, go in and adjust the catalog number to a new number and then import that record in to the panel; it will save as a new record because it has a unique catalog number. I don't know how you issue catalog numbers but there are a number of ways you could keep a panel with just new/unused catalog numbers and pull that number from there - or you could automatically increment that catalog number in the panel. Does this help at all? If you were a bit more masterful at all of this - which will come in time - you could actually create a new record from the old one through a link which is in essence the same thing. The tricky part is getting that update catalog number. I'd start with the more cumbersome method and work from there. Don On 4/21/06, Victor Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich, > > > Thank you Rich, you are right about there being a unique identifier (which > there is separate to the catelogue number). > > Being still at a relatively beginning level in understanding DataPerfect I > am not clear on the steps I need to take with the report to achieve what I > set out below. I would appreicate some help with these steps. > > Victor Warner > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:45:44 +0100, Rich Bragonje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Victor, > > > > At 05:25 AM 4/21/2006 , you wrote: > >> I would like to know if it is possible in DataPerfect to do the > >> following: > >> > >> 1. A panel contains records which share the same catalogue number. > > > > Unless the catalogue number, or some other unique identifier is present, > > and is > > used in the index, the new record will be rejected as a duplicate. > > > >> 2. I wish to create new records which are duplicates of existing > >> records but > >> the only field that is to change is the catalogue number. > > > > This will work as long as the catalogue number is used in each index. > > > >> 3. Whether it is possible to create a report which can copy all the > >> required > >> records (selected by catalogue number), create new records with the data > >> from the required records and insert the new catalogue number. > > > > This should be relatively easy, as long as the new catalogue number is > > automatically generated. > > > > > >> I would appreciate help with this. > >> > >> Victor Warner > > > > > > Rich > > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > -- Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
