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FMP 2.0 question

#524
From: Kimo B. Yap
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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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
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Summary: Best way to implement this
Keywords: labels multiple field