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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Subject: Re: Paradox question
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:25:19 GMT
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- In article <s1#@byu.edu> ron@bert.cs.byu.edu (Ron Snyder) writes:
- >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 believe "Copy" overwrites the table and could hose your reports....it
- > is safer to empty "skeleton", add "answer" "skeleton" from a script ...
- > that way you know exactly what is in the skeleton table at all times.
- >
- >When you Copy JustFamily, it leaves the destination table (in this
- >case, the answer table) alone, and just replaces any forms and reports
- >that existed for the answer table. As to your other advice, in general
- >is a better idea to not empty "skeleton" and then add "answer" "skeleton",
- >because of the time involved in this procedure, especially when there is
- >a large amount of data that would have to be moved. I have seen
- >several suggestions from the 'experts' to do a
- >
- > copyreport "skeleton" "1" "answer" "1"
- > report "answer" "1"
- >
- >when this will do what is needed. (Of course, you would have to pick
- >your own table names and report numbers.) The advantage that this
- >method has over doing a "Copy JustFamily" is that if "skeleton" has
- >a lot of reports and forms, then that extra baggage stays where it
- >is, and you only copy the report that you want.
- >
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- I asked the original question. Waht I finally did was make a macro (i.e.
- Script) that copies just the report template from my normal data table to
- the table created by Answer, which happens to have the same structure.
-
- Doug McDonald
-