FYI, remember to make backups before importing into ebase or before doing any significant tasks with ebase, as recovering from a backup will usually be MUCH easier.
Carl Linda D Saffell wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > Robert Young wrote: > > > I am starting to learn eBase today. Given that I have NO database > > experience, I thought I would ask an entry-level question while starting. > > > > I have eBase 2.0 and have printed out the tutorial for 1.03, since I > > can't find one for 2.0. Is there anything else I need to grab or find > > or watch for to ease my learning curve? > > Um, I hope that this is not heresy for our developer folks, but, Robert, > my first piece of advice would be to use version 1.03 of eBase now, with > the tutorial. Particularly if you have never done membership or > prospect database stuff before, version 1.03 and its tutorial have a LOT > to teach you. I think that once you have used 1.03 for even a short > while, you'll be closer to the general user community's level. (I have > lots of database experience but almost NO past membership tracking > experience. I began using eBase and have LOOKED at version 2.0, but > haven't been ready to convert to it as yet.) > > > > > We (Phoenix5) are very small and exist now only through a Web presence > > with no employees. I (as Webmaster) am the only real volunteer > > (full-time - I created it two years ago.). My need is that I have a > > number of Eudora addressbooks I want to put on a database. One is for > > maybe 100 contributors and the rest are for various functions, such as > > update notices or fundraising to a few hundred people who have been in > > touch with us. So my needs are pretty simple. I mainly want to just > > get the mailing lists sorted/integrated while designating which are > > contributors and which are not and what their status is, e.g., they > > were sent literature. > > I'm sure that others will speak up if I'm steering you wrong, but I know > that *I* can explain to you how to import information into eBase version > 1.03 now, but would not know how to help you with version 2.0. (What I > don't know too, since I'm showing off my lack of knowledge ;-) is how > to export from Eudora, which is part of what you will want to do.) I'd > look into doing a comma-delimited file export of the information you now > have in Eudora. Read the section in the eBase v 1.03 manuals on > importing data, and then ask more questions of us. > > Best, > Linda > > ------------------ > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
