Although I haven't done this, you could use the batch process scripts for a similar process for entering Actions. This process isn't real tricky. It would take some work to do this but at least you'd have a model for one way to do it. In my view, the real trick would be to find a way to quickly and easily create the found set you want to batch process. I presume your batch will never be the same set of records or that you'll never be able to anticipate (with some kind of record flag) who will need to be processed this way. How do you query for a set of records whose only commonality may be that they are a subset of the original contact?
Carl Barry Madore wrote: > > I know this has been addressed before, but I thought I'd try to push it a > bit further. The issue is how to enter a common action to a found set > simultaneously. If 50 people attended an event, say. > > There is the wizard for batch entering Contacts but not Actions. Dave Shaw > mentioned he exports the record numbers and re-imports them into the Actions > file and then uses the FileMaker "Replace" function to add a common action > for the set. I'm wondering if anyone has gone a step further and created a > script that does this? > > Specifically I was wondering if the script for the wizard for bulk entering > Contacts could be duplicated and modified to do the same thing except for > Actions. > > Our client is squeamish about exporting and importing; an automated > solution would sit much more easily. Before experimenting, I thought I'd > see if others have already paved the way. > > Thanks. > -- > Barry Madore > Technology & Web Development Specialist > MAP for Nonprofits > Direct: 651/632-7235 > MAP: 651/647-1216 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MAP web: http://www.mapnp.org > > ------------------ > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Carl Paulsen New Hampshire Rivers Council 54 Portsmouth Street Concord, NH 03301 603-228-6472 603-228-0423 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
