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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: paradox: example elements in an OR expression
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.141511.7234@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Aug27.042416.11940@access.digex.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:15:11 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- gulati@access.digex.com (Raj K. Gulati) writes:
-
- >I recently posted a JOB/CANDIDATE application problem, where the goal
- >of the query is to match a job with candidates, where the fields in
- >either could be matching, or blank.
-
- >This would be easy if it were not for the restriction that paradox
- >does not allow example elements to be combined in an OR expression,
- >for example: ~123 or BLANK, which then could be placed in all the
- >fields of both ask tables.
-
- >Anyone have any ideas on how to either Query, or PAL program around
- >this? Help.
-
- This may be grisly, but you could try it. Run two separate queries (or
- as many as you need), then after each case append the resulting Answer table to
- your results table with Tools|More|Add. If, for example, you have a results
- table for which you design reports and/or forms for use after the matching
- process, then your script would first empty it, then run the queries, then
- make it available for display/edit/reporting. You probably _would_ want to
- do this; in your Jobs table you could have some fields that describe current
- status. Included in your Matches table, these fields would let you maintain
- the status with regard to any particular candidate.
-
- -JTT
-
-