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- From: charlesa@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Charles Albrecht)
- Subject: Re: 4th Dimension questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.171113.18745@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
- References: <27JAN199313352985@sscvx1.ssc.gov>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:11:13 GMT
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- In article <27JAN199313352985@sscvx1.ssc.gov> dlittle@sscvx1.ssc.gov (DENNIS LITTLE) writes:
- >I'm very new to programming in databases in general and 4th Dimension in
- >general and have several questions.
- >
- >1. Is there a way to copy fields? I have a few databases which
- > have the same setup but only one character difference in the
- > name and it would be nice to be able to just input the first
- > set and then copy and modify the rest.
-
- I think 4D Mover may be able to help you here, but there is an additional
- cost involved.
-
- >
- >2. Is there a way to set up a 1 character alphanumeric field?
- > according to what I've read so far, alpha fields must be at
- > least 2 characters long and I need this one to only allow one
- > character.
- >
- >me
-
- You can add an Entry Filter to your input layout to restrict the entry to
- a single Alpha character. See Design Reference (DR) 149-155 (v.2) or
- DR5-27 to 5-35 (v.3) for more info on creating custom entry filters.
-
- -C charlesa@ncar.ucar.edu
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