Hi Charles Thanks for the quick response, The information is is already produced in Excel, but if it would be easier I could change this format, I forgot to mention that this program would be shipped on a cd so the end user I guess would have to drag the program onto there own pc so they could update or add articles to the program.
A question for you Charles, Whats the difference with Revolution and Visual Basic? As you can see I have no Idea where to start. Thanks Martin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Hartman Sent: 19 December 2005 12:50 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Is this possible. You'll get better answers from others who know more, but two things seem clear to me: 1) Revolution is a fine way to do this 2) Using Excel is not going to be the easiest way (very not); are you stuck with that? what form do you get the data in? Charles Hartman On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Martin wrote: > Hi there > > > > I am looking to purchase Revolution, I have no programming > experience but I > have a task I wish to tackle. This task is using an excel > spreadsheet full > of reviews and articles, these articles are broken down into > columns with > headings these headings are criteria within the article. (example)- > I have > over 1500 articles on fishing, each article has a heading, a > species of > fish, what bait was used to catch the fish, a date, methods etc. I > want to > make a quick reference quide (programme) to find information > quickly from > the excel spreadsheet which in turn can be updated by the program if > possible. The front end of such a program will have drop down menus > say 6 in > a line. The first drop down box will display all the fish species, > The user > will select a fish (a Carp) from this list, which will then in turn > populate > all the other drop down menus with information on Carp, next drop > down menu > would be bait (maggot) etc etc. > > > > So the end result would generate all articles containing the fish > Carp, > caught on the bait maggot, in the year 1990, on a lake, in England, > in the > Morning. > > There may be 30 results, so I would like the article headings to > show up in > a box below the drop down boxes, these headings can be selected to > show the > full article, say in another box below. This then can be printed out. > > > > Questions > > Can this be done with Revolution and Excel > > Is this type of thing difficult to produce. > > Can this system be updated from the program and not Excel > > Could all the drop down menus have all the information contained in > them so, > If my initial search was on date (year) this would populate all the > other > menus, so then I could search for the the species of fish etc. > > > > I know this is a bit vague, but I was wondering if this could be done. > > > > Let me know your thoughts. > > > > Thanks > > Martin > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
