G'day Chucky, I presume you have some way of reliably identifying which customers received it? If so then there are numerous ways you might be able to approach it.
On a report based on the Parent panel, create a subreport to loop through the child records until you find the one you want and then store some data away into a report variable, (when looping through child field initialise the variable to nothing in the report and not in the subreport header, and either only write data into the variable if the variable is empty (eg assign RV99 with the formula: IF Rv99 = "" then blah blah ELSE RV99), or you might be able to use formulas to set flags such as RV99 = RV99 OR (FieldX=value) or alternatively set a flag and and then stop the subreport when the appropriate record has been found. Just remember to always initialise the flags before running the subreport. Then when you exit the subreport you are back to the main panel with information about the data you found, or checking that the flag has been set, so you can populate the field you want to update, eg set RV98 = IF RV99 THEN [value] ELSE [oldfieldvalue] END, and save that variable to the field Regards Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles G. Wolf To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:42 AM Subject: [Dataperf] Can this be done? Hi Everybody, and Happy New Year! I'm wondering if the following can be done. My customer list in DP has a child panel in which I record what and when I mail the customer promotional literature, catalogs, etc. I'm currently involved in a test marketing program where I sent in a file with a list of customers who were eligible to receive catalogs, and a random 90% of those names were selected to receive a catalog. Now, I want to record that mailing in my database. There is a common data field. I can't do it directly to the child panel, but must do it through the main panel because a unique record ID is pulled through the link and a transaction number is created. Can this be using a merge/replace feature on in import where I then create a record through the link? Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! Charles Wolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
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