Thanks everyone for your answers!
Best regards,
Chris
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From: "Dave Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: [support] Re: Version 2 Questions
> >I hope it's okay to ask here questions about
> >version 2. I plan to wait for version 2
> >before doing any transfer of data from
> >our db to ebase. I'm getting our database
> >ready to import into e-base, and I want
> >to know what changes have been made so
> >I can concentrate my efforts on modules/capabilities
> >that are not included with version 2. So...
>
> I'll second Walt's comment that much of what your asking is at a
> level that should be addressed by the developer list.
>
> >a. The affiliations field is a challenge.
> >Sometimes, I'll do a find and get 700 people whom
> >I want to put under, let's say, 'forest activists'.
> >Do I have to go through each of those 700 folks
> >and check 'forest activist'? If I try a global
> >search and replace for that field in the found
> >set, I'll swap out everyone else's important
> >affiliations to mirror exactly those affiliations
> >of the current record. (Argh...) Will this be
> >addressed in Version 2?
>
> This is possible within the current FileMaker command set. Use the
> Replace command, and use a calculated value. The calculation would be
> Affiliation & "forest activists"
> this would add "forest activists" to the current value of
> Affiliations, so wouldn't overwrite the current value.
>
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