AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- Subject: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- From: David Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:23 +0800
Hi all...
A little call for help from the People's Republic of Macs. We use
FileMaker 8 (which thank heavens now supports Chinese characters) to
manage our database. The kind of partnerships we've been able to
conclude with our friends and partners, though, could mean that we
could see a mass explosion of new members. Already since expanding
our membership base from Beijing to all of geographical Greater
China, we're getting about 2 - 3 new members EVERY DAY.
(This is not news in a nation of 1.3 billion...)
The question is this: do you think there's a possibility that some of
executives in charge of the membership can grab a blank database with
all the layouts and fields intact, fill that with tons of new member
data, and then kind of import the whole thing?
I'm thinking about this:
1. We now have about 330-350 members. (There are still about 28
unprocessed application forms!)
2. Here's my example: I give my executives a template -- fields all
blank -- and they run home and fill that in with all those membership
data. They each do 25.
3. 4 execs go home and we get 4 new copies of the database. We have
100 new applications.
4. Is there a way to merge the new 100 into the existing 300? Or is
all data like lost?
Until there's a way to solve this, I'm afraid we're stuck with just
_me_ hogging the whole database... With the ton of work I'm
preoccupied with already, we could very well see delays and pileups
of the kind that makes even Mt Everest look like your average hillock...
My sincere thanks for any help that comes our way!
All the best,
David Feng
BeiMac (Beijing Macintosh User Group), Beijing
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