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Article #524FMP 2.0 question
From: Kimo B. Yap
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:29
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:29
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I'd like to make a database in which a company is a record, with contacts
(a reasonable number) as a field within that record. Two questions:
1. For repeating fields, is there a way to access the repetitions of the
field other than those that the first "n" specified for the "display
n of m fields" question?
2. (More important) Is there a way I can make a layout that will print
one label for each contact from the single company, and do this auto-
matically for variable numbers of contacts for each company? That is,
(for example) if I have two companies (two records) and the first one
has one contact and the second two contacts, I want to be able to (if
both of these records are in the currently selected set) get a total
of three labels out of the same layout. Although I asked (1) implying
the contact was a repeating field, it doesn't have to be that way if
that's the only thing that would prevent me from doing (2). The main
criterion is one record = one company = 1 to n contacts.
Email is the preferred response. -kby@alumni.caltech.edu
PS I saw something a while ago about being able to select a record based
(oops, I mean select a layout) based on a field in a record, but I can't
find the thing I saw; could someone refresh me on this; I thought I might
be able to switch layouts per record or something like that.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!kby From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases Subject: FMP 2.0 question Date: 20 Dec 1992 01:29:57 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1h0ialINN2pp@gap.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu Summary: Best way to implement this Keywords: labels multiple field