Tamara
You are touching a problem I've been working on for the LOKK libarary. The
problem here is many people and even products call something a database what
is noting more than a table with sortable columns. You do nead some real
database functionality here. I don't know very well how to _define_ the
difference in a simple way, but can show you the effect with the LOKK
library index.
The data entry is a simple Excel spreadsheet:
http://www.lokk.nl/Boekenlijst/BoekenLijstLOKK.xls
or
http://www.lokk.nl/Boekenlijst/BoekenLijstLOKK.html
The columns techniek and onderwerp (technique - subject) are the columns you
are breaking your mind on. The kantbrief column tells in which issue the
book is diccussed.
The problem with just sortable columns reveals itself when one book contains
different techniques: when a book contains for example both Torchon and
Guipure, sorting on techique you won't help you to find it when looking for
Guipre as it will be sorted under Torchon. For the LOKK I developped a
program that solves this problem. It extracts all the individual techniques
and subjects, and constructs an index as on
http://www.lokk.nl/Boekenlijst/index.html
I'm afraid the program is written in Perl which is not as easy to install as
Java which I used for BobbinWork Viewer.
Jo Falkink
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