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In article <1993Jan21.134958.5602@VFL.Paramax.COM>, jjs@vfl.paramax.com
(James Solderitsch) wrote:
> 
> I am trying to create a simple invoicing set-up for a psychologist
> friend of mine.  She is currently using an old version of Microsoft
> Works and creating separate spreadsheet files for each patient to
> contain treatment data, and then creating a separate billing letter
> file (also for each patient) that she cuts and pastes the relevant
> treatment data into to create her billing invoices.
> 
> I prefer ClarisWorks and am trying to set up a semi-automated system
> where there is a ClarisWorks database file containing a record for
> each patient and a separate treatment DB file that contains financial
> data for each patient, one record per treatment.  The "link" between
> the two files is a patient ID.  What I thought I would do was collect
> the relevant records for each patient (last billing date to the current
> date) and then cut and paste the found records into a spreadsheet frame
> that I install into a layout for the patient file.  Suitably formatted
> and totalled, the resulting form would make an ideal invoice.
> 
> My problem is that if the spreadsheet frame is put into the layout,
> data can be cut and pasted into the frame only when I am actually
> in layout mode, not when I am physically looking at the records themselves
> (called browse mode in CW).  This means I can only assemble data for
> one patient at a time -- what I want is to generate a report of invoice
> records, one for each patient, that I can then print as a group.
> 
> Has anyone attempted anything like this in ClarisWorks?  I have
> Filemaker Pro 2.0 which I may turn to, but the use of spreadsheet
> frames within a database layout appears at first glance to do what I
> want, except I can't put different data values into each spreadsheet
> frame on a per record basis.  Am I asking too much of CW?  Also, what
> is the latest CW version? -- I have 1.0v2.

As Bob Hearn wrote, this is beyond the capabilities of ClarisWorks. 
FileMaker Pro's lookup function might be able to do it for you.  If not,
you might have to use a relational DB such as 4D or Helix Express.

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