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- From: isc30158@nusunix1.nus.sg (WEE LEE SENG)
- Subject: Re: Paradox question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.144529.19009@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:45:29 GMT
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- J. D. McDonald (mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- :
- : 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?
-
- If you are thinking of using macros, you can create a script to
- load the proper form and assign a key to play that script. Thus,
- in a way, just like a 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.
-
- You can try to copy the pre-designed report to the answer table instead
- of copying the answer table to the old table. The only restriction of
- doing this is that the structure of answer table must be the same as
- that of the old table.
-
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