It looks like you have two questions developing here - What happened to the Modify/Create/Keep window? and how to do the search for anyone who has not posted a dues payment last year.
>Thanks Walt. By made a dues payment I mean simply individuals for whom a >dues payment was *posted* in 2001. (Not interested in expired members.) >Your second paragraph below is more in the direction of what I was trying >to do. Only, I did a Find for *all* Payment For entries (Dues, >Contributions, and Event/Purchase), and then wanted to do an Omit *Dues* >Payment For from that Found Set. That's where I ran into the problem of >the disappeared modify/create window. Both of these queries (1, find all >payments after 1/1/2001 and 2, omit dues from previous found set) use >fields in the payments file. If this approach is OK as a multiple find, >does the absent modify/create window indicate something wrong with the the >software? Henry First question: The Query routine in the payments file doesn't check for a previous query (by comparing the found set with the number of records in the file) like the names file does. The Modify/Create/Keep window doesn't therefore appear in the payment query routine. At least in the ebase file set as delivered. If you have modified the payments file to do that, I can't answer why it's not showing up now. If you want to modify an existing query in the payments file, select the script Modify Last Find, which will recall the previous search criteria and jump to find mod. Second question: The easiest way to find the people who have not posted a dues payment in 2001 would be to: - hit the payments tab in the upper left of the HOME screen. - Click the gray Find button on the right. - Tab once and enter the date >12.31.2000 (There's a button on the entire payment line in this screen so you can't click into the field directly) - Tab again and enter "Dues" (without the quotes) - check the Omit box on the left - Click the Find button on the left to perform the search. This will omit from the found set anyone who had a Dues payment in 2001. Walt's right, though, this will include current members, previous members, and never members, as long as you haven't had a dues payment from them this year. -- -- Dave Shaw H4 Consulting tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
