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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Mary.Curtin
- From: Mary.Curtin@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Paradox question
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:03:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.110322.1326@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <mcdonald.693.727814490@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan24.144529.19009@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Sender: Mary.Curtin@actrix.gen.nz (Mary Curtin)
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- In an article, 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 setting up some sort of application for others to use, then
- you would use a script. But if you just want to set up a working
- environment which suits you, try F10 Image Keepsettings (when you have
- used F10 Image Pickform to select the right form.
-
- > 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.
-
- That's fundamental to the way Paradox works. Forms and reports are
- associated with particular tables. Every time you Ask a query, you
- create a brand new Answer table, deleting any Answer table that was
- sitting in your current working directory.
-
- The way I worked was, for reports I wanted to produce often, to keep a
- second table (I referred to it as a 'skeleton table' but this
- terminology is strictly non-standard!) which has exactly the same
- structure as the Answer table I wanted to report from, but no data in
- it. Use this second table to design reports, forms etc. Every time
- you do a query and want to use one of the reports or forms, do a F10
- Tools Copy Justfamily "skeleton" "Answer".
-
- (I'm guessing that you're more interested in manipulating your data
- than in creating applications to assist in entering or reporting on
- it. If this is not true, then some other methods may be more
- appropriate.)
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