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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Spreadsheet Frames In ClarisWorks DBs
- Message-ID: <mike_steiner-250193115813@192.35.50.131>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:59:36 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.134958.5602@VFL.Paramax.COM>
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- In article <1993Jan21.134958.5602@VFL.Paramax.COM>, jjs@vfl.paramax.com
- (James Solderitsch) wrote:
- >
- > I am trying to create a simple invoicing set-up for a psychologist
- > friend of mine. She is currently using an old version of Microsoft
- > Works and creating separate spreadsheet files for each patient to
- > contain treatment data, and then creating a separate billing letter
- > file (also for each patient) that she cuts and pastes the relevant
- > treatment data into to create her billing invoices.
- >
- > I prefer ClarisWorks and am trying to set up a semi-automated system
- > where there is a ClarisWorks database file containing a record for
- > each patient and a separate treatment DB file that contains financial
- > data for each patient, one record per treatment. The "link" between
- > the two files is a patient ID. What I thought I would do was collect
- > the relevant records for each patient (last billing date to the current
- > date) and then cut and paste the found records into a spreadsheet frame
- > that I install into a layout for the patient file. Suitably formatted
- > and totalled, the resulting form would make an ideal invoice.
- >
- > My problem is that if the spreadsheet frame is put into the layout,
- > data can be cut and pasted into the frame only when I am actually
- > in layout mode, not when I am physically looking at the records themselves
- > (called browse mode in CW). This means I can only assemble data for
- > one patient at a time -- what I want is to generate a report of invoice
- > records, one for each patient, that I can then print as a group.
- >
- > Has anyone attempted anything like this in ClarisWorks? I have
- > Filemaker Pro 2.0 which I may turn to, but the use of spreadsheet
- > frames within a database layout appears at first glance to do what I
- > want, except I can't put different data values into each spreadsheet
- > frame on a per record basis. Am I asking too much of CW? Also, what
- > is the latest CW version? -- I have 1.0v2.
-
- As Bob Hearn wrote, this is beyond the capabilities of ClarisWorks.
- FileMaker Pro's lookup function might be able to do it for you. If not,
- you might have to use a relational DB such as 4D or Helix Express.
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