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- From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: FMP 2.0 question
- Date: 20 Dec 1992 01:29:57 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Message-ID: <1h0ialINN2pp@gap.caltech.edu>
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- Summary: Best way to implement this
- Keywords: labels multiple field
-
- I'd like to make a database in which a company is a record, with contacts
- (a reasonable number) as a field within that record. Two questions:
-
- 1. For repeating fields, is there a way to access the repetitions of the
- field other than those that the first "n" specified for the "display
- n of m fields" question?
-
- 2. (More important) Is there a way I can make a layout that will print
- one label for each contact from the single company, and do this auto-
- matically for variable numbers of contacts for each company? That is,
- (for example) if I have two companies (two records) and the first one
- has one contact and the second two contacts, I want to be able to (if
- both of these records are in the currently selected set) get a total
- of three labels out of the same layout. Although I asked (1) implying
- the contact was a repeating field, it doesn't have to be that way if
- that's the only thing that would prevent me from doing (2). The main
- criterion is one record = one company = 1 to n contacts.
-
- Email is the preferred response. -kby@alumni.caltech.edu
-
- PS I saw something a while ago about being able to select a record based
- (oops, I mean select a layout) based on a field in a record, but I can't
- find the thing I saw; could someone refresh me on this; I thought I might
- be able to switch layouts per record or something like that.
-