>On Wednesday 09 January 2002 17:49, Dave Shaw wrote: >> I'll second Walt's suggestion that Record Type is not a good place to >> keep this info. Label, letter, and envelope addresses have different >> information depending on the value of the field Record Type. A better >> scheme to keep the bit of data "send a newsletter" is one of the >> contact flag fields on the data entry screen. Put a "Y" in the one >> labeled "Newsletter". > >Hm... it's a little late for us to completely change the way we're using >Record Type at this point.
Possibly not. You can find your "Active" set and use the FileMaker Replace command to put Y in the newsletter contact flag, then change "Active" to Ind, for example. It doesn't have to be onerous. >We haven't noticed any differences in address >info depending on the Record Type; could you be more specific? I don't >remember reading that in the documentation, which is why I felt free to >define custom Record Types that made sense for our organization. Thanks for >the advice! --Ben For records with something other than Ind in the Record Type, addresses will have the organization name as well as or in place of the individual names. Check the calculated field Name Line for example. -- -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
