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Re: Reordering the database

From	Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	comp.databases.filemaker
Subject	Re: Reordering the database
Date	2011-08-15 10:05 +0000
Organization	slrn user
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:40:15 +1200, Your Name wrote:
>  The only solution would be to have an Script that sorts the records, and
>  set the Preferences for that database to perform the Script when opening
>  the database (although it could take a while with LOTS of records and / or
>  a slow computer).

You could script to go to certain overview layouts and sort, too.

>  but as soon as you perfrom a Find or create / import new records they'll
>  be incorrectly ordered and you'll have to perform the Script to re-sort
>  them again.
> 
>  Realistically, the sensible soultion is to Sort the records (or a smaller
>  Found Set) only when they NEED to be in that order, and otherwise not
>  worry about it.

Perfectly true.

However, it could be part of a backup strategy to save a file every
night, create a clone, import, name the old file to database_date.fp7 and
the clone to database.fp7

I feel this should not be done, but it's a working solution,
Martin

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        Re: Reordering the database John G <greentest@ozemail.com.au> - 2011-08-15 18:09 +1000
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          Re: Reordering the database "giannis" <zzzinobios@freemail.gr> - 2011-08-15 11:41 +0300
            Re: Reordering the database John G <greentest@ozemail.com.au> - 2011-08-15 19:00 +1000
      Re: Reordering the database Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2011-08-15 10:05 +0000
        Re: Reordering the database yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-08-16 09:02 +1200
  Re: Reordering the database Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2011-08-15 05:06 +0000
    Re: Reordering the database "giannis" <zzzinobios@freemail.gr> - 2011-08-15 16:42 +0300
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