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How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

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    How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

    My customer has used a single flat file table for many years. Now, it's time to update the system because they want to use 2 or 3 computers for data entry at the same time. So, the flat file has been divided into 3 tables along with a couple of look-up tables for employees and sales tax. This works well. That is, until I get to an pre-printed invoicing form. This form is taken by the employee into the field when a job is performed for new customer, sort of a "invoice on the fly". My customer wants all employee names and their license numbers printed on the form so that when this situation occurs, all the employee has to do is circle his name.

    In a flat file table, I could simply have 9 fields, Emp1 - Emp9. I've thought about placing these fields in table3 and then populate them with a lookup. However, there is no way for the lookup to know which employee to put in which field or to prevent duplicates. IOW, there has to be a unique link other than just the 'Tech' field. So, I also added an ID field to both tables which may solve that issue. The issue of adding new employees and removing or not including former employees remains a big issue as does indices.

    The other way I tried:

    I did add the lookup table to the set and with the form based on the set, I tried adding a browse to the form. However it does not show the data. The only way I can get the employee list to show is to place a Record List List Box on the form. Hey, that works great but there is no way to remove all of the List box so only the data is there. "No Border" only removes the border. The header bar, vertical slide and the frame still remain. One last bump in the road. It would be very helpful to break it into 4 columns, or 2 columns of 5 records, Emp1-Emp6 Lic # and name in columns 1&2 and Emp7-Emp10 Lic # and name in columns 3&4.

    Maybe someone has done this before and found a way? This has become a nightmare.


    WOW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I figured it out. No sooner had I posted and I thought, "Try a grid". I created a simple read only grid, removed the style and everything else that would show. I linked it to the form by employee name. It did not show the data. After playing around a bit, I realized I didn't need a link and simply used this filter: isnotblank("Employee"). Walla, it works. This took me less than 1 minute to create the grid and embed it on the form and 2-3 minutes more to experiment with the filter part. I doubt this could have been done without the ability to embed a grid. Shazam? How COOL is that?
    Last edited by forskare; 01-15-2015, 01:54 AM. Reason: Solved
    TYVM :) kenn

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    Re: How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

    Very cool. So did you mean voila when you wrote walla ?
    Robin

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      Re: How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

      Yes, but a grid isn't always the answer. Grids linked to a form do not and will not work until Alpha completes the conversion to Google. (Assuming I understood the explanation). Buttons opening a grid and a grid on a form but not linked to the form, do work.
      TYVM :) kenn

      Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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        Re: How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

        Originally posted by MoGrace View Post
        Very cool. So did you mean voila when you wrote walla ?
        It's a Minnesota thing...

        Wisconsin and Minnesota guys always pick on each other. Keeps it warmer up here.
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          Re: How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

          Here is a way to get the list of employees. I am assuming you are .dbf tables from what you said.
          This would require that you add a logical field to the employee table and call it something list invok Change the value of the logical field invok to .t. (True) and would get it working nicely and you can use this in a grid or a report.

          This sample gives a list of district code and districtname from the district table when the 'statement' field is true:

          districtlist = table.external_record_content_get("district","district + districtname","district","statement")
          ?districtlist
          = AU Austin
          DA Dallas
          HO Houston
          LV Las Vegas
          PH Phoenix

          Then use this command to get rid of the duplicates.
          districtlist = *remove_duplicates(districtlist,crlf())

          Mike
          Mike Reed
          Phoenix, AZ

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            Re: How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

            Sure enough. Gotta admit though, I'm behind the Pack but their work is cut out for them. Rogers and crew are the underdogs.
            Last edited by forskare; 01-15-2015, 07:28 PM.
            TYVM :) kenn

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              Re: How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

              Grids linked to a form do not and will not work until Alpha completes the conversion to Google.
              whats that mean? I am lost on that statement...thanks!
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                Re: How to Show All Employees? A departure From The Usual Way of Doing Business

                All the transition from IE to Google has not been done and until is is, there will be this hiccup. Don't know when it will be finished but I hope soon.
                TYVM :) kenn

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