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- From: squid@carroll1.cc.edu (Craig C Schanning)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Unique Calculation Field checking in Filemaker Pro
- Message-ID: <3541@carroll1.cc.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 21:58:48 GMT
- Reply-To: squid@carroll1.cc.edu (Craig C Schanning)
- Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
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- I am currently using Filemaker Pro 1.0, but plan on upgrading to
- 2.0 pretty soon, so if you know an answer that only works in 2.0
- please tell me anyway.
-
- Here is my question:
-
- I currently have a filemaker document that contains a bunch of peoples
- names and other data. I have a First Name field and a Last Name
- field. I want to have to computer automatically verify that the person
- is not already in the file. There is no option for this when I make a full-
- name field that just concatenates the first and last name fields together.
- I don't really want to make the Full Name field the field where I
- enter the data, since it is hard to pick out the first and last names
- out of that field when some names have "Jr." or "Sr." at the end or
- when some names have middle initials and some do not. Does any one
- know a work around, or do I have to just do a find before every new
- record I make?
-
-
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- * Craig Schanning - squid@carroll1.cc.edu *
- * And the next thing you know, ol' Jed's a millionaire *
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