Good question. It is a Feature not a Bug! As we get the website finished there will be online documentation about the design decisions and process which went into creating ebase2. For now here is a quick 'why' to answer your question.
For the general use login (login through ebase.200) the bulk of the filemaker pull down menus are grayed out to prevent accidental use of filemaker 'features' such as "Delete All". The devLogin.200 the Developer Login file unlocks some filemaker features for developer access. Ebase 2 uses fairly extensive transfer of data behind the scenes and makes use of a non-filemaker record identification process which offers some real advantages but makes the filemaker 'Duplicate record' command a data integrity damaging command. As a result, use of some of the standard filemaker "shot cuts" could produce erratic or erroneous results and were 'grayed out'. hope that made sense and helped you understand some of the whys of ebase2 Clif -------------------------------------------- Clif Graves, Programmer TechRocks 74 Narrows Pond Road Winthrop ME 04364 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eFax: 425.790.2058 Web: http://www.techrocks.org -------------------------------------------- ebase � Open Source Relationship Management Software for Non Profits http://www.ebase.org -------------------------------------------- > Thank you for your helpful step by step instructions. I noticed > that when I > was in the devlogin I could access the pull down menus (i.e. > records - sort > etc). But, when I enter ebase the regular way I those pull down and short > cut buttons aren't available. Can you help??? > > Thanks! > > Jen > > Jen Brock > Director of Organizational Development > Gulf Restoration Network > 839 St. Charles Ave., Suite 309 > New Orleans, LA 70130 > ph: 504-525-1528 fax: 504-525-0833 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.gulfrestorationnetwork.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Clif Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:00 PM > To: TechRocks Support > Cc: ebase 2.0 Discussion List > Subject: [support] Step by Step Deleting the sample set > > > Well I had expected that groups would be experimenting with the sample set > for weeks before they were ready to 'dig in'. But you folks are > much braver > than that! Apologies in advance for cross posting. Those who are > on both the > support and ebase2 lists will get two postings. > > So for all you that are ready, here is the step by step for deleting the > sample set. > > Given you are ready to start using ebase and so no longer need to practice > with the sample name and address data. > > When you are ready to delete all the sample Contacts and Log data. The > quickest is to: > > - quit ebase2 if it is running > - go to your ebase2 folder > - run the file devLogin.200 (If you are using the runtime this > should run - > if you have a full version of you may need associate the file > with filemaker > or directly open the file in Filemaker - details of this differ > between Macs > and PCs) > - at the DevLogin single password dialog enter 'Admin' > - At the ebase password and login enter name = ADMIN password = ADMIN > (unless you have changed the Admin password and login, If you > have use your > new Admin login) > - at the Main Menu choose Contacts. > - at the Contacts Individual Overview choose 'History' > - at the Log History from the 'Records' pull down menu item choose 'Delete > All Records'. (Your left hand navigation menu should disappear. if it does > not again choose 'Delete All Records' from the records pull down menu). > - Choose From the 'Windows' pull down menu choose 'Contacts.200' > - at Contacts from the 'Records' pull down menu item choose 'Delete All > Records'. (Your left hand navigation menu should disappear. if it does not > again choose 'Delete All Records' from the records pull down menu). > - AT THIS POINT YOU SHOULD HAVE NO LEFT HAND NAVIGATION MENU - That is OK > for now. > - from the 'SCRIPTS' pull down menu choose 'Add Contact' and > start entering > your first contact. Once one contact record is entered you should > again see > the left hand navigation menu. > - From the Left hand Navigation Menu, now choose 'ADMIN' > - Choose 'Maintenance Scripts' > - Choose 'Delete Orphaned Location Records' > - And you should now have a database with no sample data. > > We actually had a 'button' on the ADMIN menu of the pre-release version > which did all this with the push of a button but decided it was 'Too > dangerous' in presenting a danger of accidentally deleting data. > > Clif > -------------------------------------------- > Clif Graves, Programmer > TechRocks > 74 Narrows Pond Road > Winthrop ME 04364 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > eFax: 425.790.2058 Web: http://www.techrocks.org > -------------------------------------------- > ebase � Open Source Relationship Management Software for Non Profits > http://www.ebase.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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------ > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
