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    Help with exporting

    I am using A5 v.4. I am trying to export some records and keep getting an error message that states:

    "Record number is past end of table"

    What does this mean and how do I correct it?

    What I am trying to do is export records by email addresses. I have done this successfully before.



    I tried earlier today and everything seemed to go well, except the new exports were not showing up in my "operations" tab.

    Here are the steps I took.

    In operations, I clicked on "new"

    Chose "Export records"

    Chose my "customer" under "Tables & Sets"

    then chose "Export Genie"

    In export file type, chose Character separated and clicked on "Strip leading blanks from fields" and "Strip trailing blanks from fields"

    In the "Name of export file" box, typed in "email-msn.com" (without quotes, of course)

    In the "Select Fields", I chose "email" and put it in the "fields to export" area.

    Nex, I chose "Records that satisfy filter criteria and "Specify filter using: Expression

    The box below, Filter Builder, I put in: right(alltrim(email),8) = "@msn.com"

    clicked OK

    Record Order - Order by email (A-Z)

    Then "Run the Export now, but first save the definition ..."

    It asked me for a name so chose email-msn

    It ran the report, but is not showing up in my "operations"

    Now, when I try to do an export, I am getting the error message
    "Record number is past end of table"

    I am desperate for some help. Thanks in advance for any help.

    CB
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    #2
    Re: Help with exporting

    The name of the export file should probably be

    email-msn.txt
    email-msn.asc

    or some extension supported by your text editor

    not

    email-msn.com


    It ran the report, but is not showing up in my "operations"

    Now, when I try to do an export, I am getting the error message
    If it is not showing up on your operations tab of the control panel, how are you doing the export?
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: Help with exporting

      It goes through the whole process (at least it did earlier until I got the error message) and told me how many records it exported. But the new export is not showing up.

      I have not had to put the ".txt" nor ".asc" extension on the name of the export before. I did not put ".com" on the name of the export - but only in the expression.



      Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
      The name of the export file should probably be

      email-msn.txt
      email-msn.asc

      or some extension supported by your text editor

      not

      email-msn.com


      If it is not showing up on your operations tab of the control panel, how are you doing the export?

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        #4
        Re: Help with exporting

        Here is what I use. I create a .txt file, open it, then copy and paste into an email under the BC tab.


        'Send Emails to ALL

        a_tbl = table.current()
        query.order = ""
        query.filter = "Sendby=\"Email\" .and. Dc_Date={}"
        query.options = "I"
        a_tbl.query_create()
        export.type = 0
        export.names = .F.
        export.file = "alltrim(email.txt)"
        export.options = "LT"
        export.field_sep = ";"
        export.record_sep = " " '<CR><LF"
        export.fields = 1
        export.field1 = "member_info->email"
        a_tbl.export()

        ui_msg_box("Note","After you click OK, NOTEPAD will open showing all email addresses. Copy and Paste to email program.",0+64)
        filename = A5.get_path()+chr(92)+"Email.txt"
        'ui_msg_box("",Filename)
        'Sys_open(filename)
        sys_shell("c:\windows\notepad.exe c:\lsf\lsf\email.txt",1)

        END

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          #5
          Re: Help with exporting

          This is so strange. The .asc files show up in my folder where I have the database info - but are not showing up in my "operations" - how can that be.

          i.e., I show:

          email-aol.asc
          email-charter.asc
          email-sbcglobal.asc
          etc.

          of those 3, only the top 2 show up.

          This is driving me crazy because I had no problems doing the export earlier.

          I finally got rid of the "Record number is past end of table" error (I restored my database from a copy I made yesterday).

          I look forward to any help.

          CB

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            #6
            Re: Help with exporting

            You could rename the files after running the operation.

            File.rename(Old Filename, New Filename)
            File.rename("email-aol.asc","email-aol.txt")

            Tom

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              #7
              Re: Help with exporting

              That didn't help either. Some of them showed up all of a sudden when I was in the program - but not all of them are showing up.

              They were all done the same and they are all in the folder for that database.

              I may have to try to re-install the program.

              CB

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                #8
                Re: Help with exporting

                I'm back and still having problems with my exports not showing up in my "operations" tab.

                I tried doing one in another database and had no problems. It just seems to be with this one database.

                I even re-installed the program.

                The .asc files are showing up in the directory, but just will not show up in my operations tab.

                Is there a way to "repair" my database? Of course, I would make a copy of it first.

                I hope there is some one out there that has an answer for me.

                thanks so much.

                CB

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