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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Subject: Paradox question
- Message-ID: <mcdonald.693.727814490@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: UIUC SCS
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:41:30 GMT
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- I'm a very novice Paradox user, like about 36 hours. We (here at the
- huge U of I) seem to have nobody who knows about Paradox (despite,
- one might add, have a group of folks contracted to Borland to
- support a site license for it).
-
- I've constructed a moderately elaborate 3-table data base for my rock
- collection. I can do everything I want, including makeing upo forms
- and reports, but there are three things that seem horrible klunky.
-
- 1) I can't get the "modify" or "data-entry" things on a table to
- come up automatically with the proper form for that table ... I
- have to change it manually every time with Image. How does one do this?
- Some sort of simple macro?
-
- 2) I can Ask to my heart's content and it works fine, but getting a
- report on the result is a pain .. I have to COPY a report type to
- the Answer table by hand every time I create a new Answer .. is there some
- way to make this stick .. I tried copying Answer over an old table to
- which I had already attached a report, but that seems to lose the report
- already attached.
-
- 3) Is it possible in one Ask operation (not two in a row, that's obvious)
- to query a table like
-
- F1 F2
- 1 a
- 1 b
- 1 c
- 2 b
- 2 d
- 3 c
- 4 e
- 5 c
- 6 a
- 6 d
-
- where both F1 and F2 are keyed so that I generate an Answer table
- with all the records that have the same F1 number as any F1 that
- has a "b" in f2?
-
- Doug McDonald
-