Re: Dose anyone know....
Re: Dose anyone know....
- Subject: Re: Dose anyone know....
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:43:43 +0200
At 12:52 AM +0200 1/8/02, Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
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(sorry, have missed the thread, so am considering Arthur's mail only)
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> tell Database 1
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> tell Table "Customers"
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> set (Value of Cell "Name" of (every Record whose Value of
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> Cell "CodeNumber" = "A2306")) to "Test Company"
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Try changing "every Record" to "first Record". This may speed up
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execution. Other than that, there is nothing in your above code that
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seems like it can be improved upon. The application may simply be
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taking a long to find the appropriate record, and there isn't much
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that you can do about that. Is it a very large database?
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Without knowing anything else about the application, we can't
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really help very much, sorry.
I know very few programmers who would accept to program an application so
that it would kindly accept to run such a command line as:
set value of cell "name" of every blah blah
Setting a property of "every" thing is already an achievement.
Setting a property of an element (referenced by name, here) of "every"
thing is much harder.
The programmer would not even know what (s)he must do with the records who
don't have a cell named "name" - starting with simple problems.
If I'm right, use a loop, such as:
set theList to (every record ...)
repeat with theRecord in theList
set value of cell "name" of theRecord (or, do you need "of
theRecord's contents")
...
HTH
Emmanuel
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