Good to hear! I think I'm going to start instituting this in my apps where
they search across multiple fields!
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: Carpet Broker, Dick Fey <d...@carpetbroker.com>
To: rbase-l <rbase-l@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Sep 21, 2016 10:41 am
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - My solution to awkward parishioner name searches
Karen;
We use a computed column of called 'CustomerInfo' (customername, city,
zipcode, customerphone) to allow an almost instant
search for a customer to open an order form. The search is 'Where
customerinfo contains'. Works great
You can enter any of those criteria to find the customer.
Dick Fey
Carpet Broker Inc.
On 9/12/2016 8:16 AM, karentellef via RBASE-L wrote:
Wow, I haven't used "sounds" in a gazillion years, back to the
DOS days. Think I
might play with it again!
But something you said interests me. You say that
"contactlookupname" is a
computed column concatenating all 4 names. Now THAT is
something I never thought
of doing! If someone wanted to type in a name, and have it
search perhaps a company
name but also a contact name, I would do a "company contains
.vtext OR contact
contains .vtext", as you say. But if there's a concatenation,
then you can do a
contains against just one column. I'm going to try this!
So since you have that concatenated column, why are you doing
the "sounds"
against the separate pieces? Is it because the "sounds"
doesn't work correctly
against the longer computed column?
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: Albert Berry <alb...@albertberry.com>
To: rbase-l <rbase-l@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 11, 2016 11:19 pm
Subject: [RBASE-L] - My solution to awkward parishioner name
searches
I am working up a useable search function to find parishioners.
This is how I got around the plethora of names in a Roman
Catholic Parish
that dates back to 1896. Each of the input name spaces
allows 30 characters.
There are many unusual spellings here. The coal miners
came from virtually
every European country, and names are spelled every which
way, so I used
the very useful function supplied by R:Base, the SOUNDEX
"SOUNDS"
Here is my solution to the problem. It works very quickly.
I started by using
"OR" but it was very slow.
My favourite spelling of them all is "Jorjia" - I don't think
I could find it any other way.
*****************************************************************
SET ERROR MESSAGE 677 OFF
DROP VIEW vwParishioners1
DROP VIEW vwParishioners
SET ERROR MESSAGE ON
-- ContactLookupName is computed to concatenate
all four names with the
-- nickname in parentheses. Nickname is also
useful as "usual name"
-- My wife's lookupname is BERRY Marie
Marguerite Claire (Claire)
CREATE VIEW vwParishioners1 +
(ContactID,ParishID,ContactSurName,ContactName1, ContactName2,+
ContactNickName,
ContactLookupName,ParishName) AS +
SELECT
ContactID,OrganizationID,ContactSurName,ContactName1,
ContactName2,+
ContactNickName,ContactLookupName,OrganizationName +
FROM ContactOrganization t1, Contact
t2,Organization t3 WHERE +
t1.ContactID = t2.ContactID AND
t1.OrganizationID = t3.OrganizationID
COMMENT ON VIEW vwParishioners1 is "
CREATE VIEW vwParishioners +
(ContactID,ParishID,ContactSurName,ContactName1, ContactName2,+
ContactNickName,
ContactLookupName,ParishName) AS +
SELECT * FROM vwParishioners1 +
WHERE ContactSurName SOUNDS "BERRY" +
UNION SELECT * FROM vwParishioners1 +
WHERE ContactName1 SOUNDS "BERRY" +
UNION SELECT * FROM vwParishioners1 +
WHERE ContactName2 SOUNDS "BERRY"
+
UNION SELECT * FROM
vwParishioners1 +
WHERE ContactNickName SOUNDS
"BERRY"
RETURN
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