I sounds like you are trying to rewrite past history. If you do what you say you want to do then someone who in the past was a major donor by the old rules will not be by the new rules. It is sort of like raising the prices on an item and then changing old invoices which used the old price (no accountant would approve of doing that). You want to think about what use you will make of older data. If you query by the amounts you will get one answer, if you query by the levels you will get a different answer.
So in a sense you have lost data in that if you recompute all the levels, you will no longer know that someone used to be a higher level than they are now. However it is not lost data in the sense that you could go back to the old level definitions and recompute again. Look in the archives because I know this has been discussed. > -----Original Message----- > From: Karole Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:08 PM > To: TechRocks Support > Subject: [support] Changing Giving Levels > > > We recently upgraded to FileMaker Pro 5.5 and e-base 1.0.3. Our > contribution ranges have changed and we would like to change the giving > levels in ebase. Can we simply change the giving levels and > expect ebase to > automatically update all accounts, or is there something we will > need to do > to prevent losing data? > > Thanks for your help. > Karole Lee > -- > Administrative Director > Montana Wilderness Association > Office: (406) 443-7350 > > > ------------------ > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
