John Jason Jordan said the following, On 2008-02-22 17:59: > I have a field I use for selecting records in a database of test > questions by placing unique strings in the field. For example, I might > enter "FE1a-001" which means that it will be merged into Final Exam 1a > and will be question #1. This works well, but sometimes I need to merge > the same question into other documents. For example, if I want the same > question to appear in Final Exam 3c as question #30 I need to enter > "FE3c-030" in this field as well. > > I can add both values in the field, but then the select queries do not > pick up the record at all. I need the LIKE operator to function as long > as the string occurs *anywhere* in the field, not that the field be > *the same as* the string. I can't find any documentation that addresses > how to do this.
Pelase read Answer 1.9 at http://kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?KexiFAQ#1._General_Features A side note: perhaps you could split your composed field to two separate fields? Moreover, I can see here the many-to-many relationship: Questions <-> Exams, so splitting the data to separate tables could help as well (that leads to using of drop-down lists in your table or form views). -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Sponsored by OpenOffice Polska (http://www.openoffice.com.pl/en) to work on Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi.pl/en, http://www.koffice.org/kexi) KDE Libraries for MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ Kexi mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kexi
