A question in somewhat the same ballpark....
....Can you do a find or query in FileMaker/ebase to generate a found set
or group that is a random selection, say, every 3rd, 5th or 8th name or
member number. Just wondering.
Gary Freeman
Missouri Prairie Foundation
At 09:14 AM 3/15/01 -0700, you wrote:
>What you're asking for is a way to find a group, but without a
>criterion to select them by. That's hard for humans, let alone a
>silicon-based processor. You've got to specify a search criterion to
>find a group, even if you are going to look through them one by one
>(and you sure don't want to do that with 4000 records). Look around
>and see if you can find something. If you invited them for a specific
>day, you must have a record of that. How did you invite them? Are
>there contact records for the invitation? How did you specify in the
>invitation which day they were invited for?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave Shaw [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:55 AM
>>To: TechRocks Support
>>Subject: [support] Re: Selecting names
>>
>>>I would like to know if there is a way to select some names (no find
>>>involved) from the Ebase then forward them as a "found set" to file
>>>export.
>>
>>Hard to answer that, since a Find is the basic method for generating
>>a found set.
>>
>>>Specifically, were having a 3 day event with some folks invited
>>>on Friday, others on Sat and the rest on Sunday.
>>>
>>>Seems to me there should be a way. I know I can omit the Fridays from the
>>>Sat & Sunday list.
>>>
>>
>>I'm not at all clear on what you are attempting here. I'll guess that
>>you want to isolate a found set of the folks who are invited for each
>>day. How is that coded? Do you have a field in which you have entered
>>the day they are invited? You can search on any field in the file, so
>>you can do a find for the day.
>>
>>Thank you, for your prompt reply! Regretfully there's nothing similar
>>between the individuals so no way to "find" them as a group. There are
>>4,000 invited on Sunday. For them I can omit those invited on Sat or Sun.
>> But is there a way to pull those individuals out for the weekend?
>>I'll also add that you can omit records one by one with the menu item
>>Records>Omit Record. If it's a short list, you scroll through the
>>list and omit selected records as appropriate. Tedious for many
>>records and easier to enter the day they are invited someplace so you
>>can search more quickly the next time.
>>--
>>Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
>>tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
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