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    AlphaSports Customer Info Form needs attention

    Ok programming gurus and the likewise folks! I have a scenario for you that needs your attention, if you would not mind that is....

    In the AlphaSports application, there is a "Customer Information" form, opening that in form view and selecting search by "Bill Country" or "Bill State Region" or "Bill City" or "First Name" or "Lastname" etc. etc...one sees that in the embedded browse field values are repeatedly shown. For example if the user selects: "Lastname" he will see two fields in the browse that have the values: "McDonald" appear twice, If he selects "First Name" he sees the values "James" appear more then once....and the case goes on....

    I understand why this is happeneing, most prolly because the values that the browse is showing are all and every respective field value for all the records in the database that relate to customer information.

    My question is: How to eliminate duplicate field values in this embedded browse scenario? For instance when i want to search by: "Bill City" i dont want to see multiple occurances of "Arlington" repeatedly show up in the browse--just having "Arlington" listed once in the browse would justify the needs of anyone who wants to search for Bill City=Arlington. Does anyone catch the drift of the cuisine i am trying to cook up!!?

    Please let me know...much appreciated before-hand for taking your precious time to read this thread!
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    RE: AlphaSports Customer Info Form needs attention



    Ryan Giggs wrote:
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    Ok programming gurus and the likewise folks! I have a scenario for you that needs your attention, if you would not mind that is....

    I understand why this is happening, most probably because the values that the browse is showing are all and every respective field value for all the records in the database that relate to customer information.

    "i" Yes, that is it. It shows that some techniques work well for some data and not for others. This display works best if the field searched by is relatively unique. If the data repeats too much it is not as effective.

    Consider using a query by form to find a state and then look by last name within the state.

    Don't look at Alphasports as an end all example. Just glean some information from it and other examples and then use what fits best in your situation.

    You may also want to look at xdialog examples of lookups to see what other options are available."/i"


    My question is: How to ....
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      RE: AlphaSports Customer Info Form needs attention

      Al,

      Buddy, there has got to be a way to somehow eliminate duplicate entries in the browse??

      But I like your ideas of using other querying options to find the same data. However, i want to see what others might have to say regarding this type of search, that is presented to the users of Alpha in "Customer Information" form.

      Cheers!

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        RE: AlphaSports Customer Info Form needs attention

        Ryan,

        Your question is entirely theoretical. One would never implement your goal in a form designed to show contact information on each customer. If the browse only showed one Bill_City entry for each 'unique' city, you'd see the information on only one customer, since the customer info and the Bill_City field are in the same record. So, I disagree with the premise implied in your subject line. The Customer Information form probably does not need any attention... at least not on this score. See what I mean?

        -- tom

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          RE: AlphaSports Customer Info Form needs attention

          Ryan

          I can see eliminating duplicates in a drop down list, but a browse is used to display the data, not the choices of an individual field.

          The drop down list options allow unique values only, which is what you are looking for.

          This is probably all semantics and clarification of what each object should be used for.
          Al Buchholz
          Bookwood Systems, LTD
          Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

          Occam's Razor - KISS
          Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
          Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
          When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
          "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
          Albert Einstein

          http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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