Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- Subject: Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- From: Bill Kline <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:00:32 -0500
David,
This is pretty simple to orchestrate. I would suggest using SD cards and readers, or USB Keydrives. You can give each assistant a clone of your database with no data. They can enter the data, and keep the file right there o the card. You could plug it into your mac, and import it right into your database, adding it to your growing database. Then you could delete all the data on the card, and do it again.
I have FileMaker Pro 7 and 8 in my business. Each morning, I import the day's work from the Office iMac to a PowerBookG4 and a MacBookPro. I have a script that opens the file from the iMac, exports today's work to an untitled.fp7 file, switches back to my local file and imports that data into the portable mac's file. If you had the file on each external card named the same, you could script it fairly easily, then just run the script 4 times , each time with a different card connected. Would take about 2 seconds per card.
Bill Kline MacFanatic GreenvilleMUG Apple Ambassador Greer, SC Doing my best to save folks from MicroSerfdom Authorized Apple Business Agent AA071691 http://agents.apple.com/store On Feb 14, 2007, at 9:12 AM, David Feng wrote:
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?
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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