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Conference disk - error in doc?
Nov 15th, 2005 at 4:38pm
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I'm just starting to look at the disk we received at the conference, and I have a question about one of the documents therein, "Custom Menus in Sesame.doc".

Line 31-33 reads:
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The programming says that if the Global Value equals 1 then load the saved Retrieve Spec named "Custom Menu”, load the saved Sort Spec named “By Date”, and retrieve the new results.


I think there's an error here.  Doesn't "Global Value = 1" load "Program"?  It looks like "Global Value = 2" loads "Custom Menu".

I'm not trying to be nit-picky, I just want to make sure I understand this process because custom menus will be very important for me to use later in my application development.

Thanks for any help.
  
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Re: Conference disk - error in doc?
Reply #1 - Nov 15th, 2005 at 5:18pm
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You caught me!  You are correct.  It is a dyslexic typo wher iI reversed what they do.  My apologies - good catch.
  
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Reply #2 - Nov 15th, 2005 at 5:57pm
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Thanks Bill!

Are you the same Bill who wrote the "Practical Q&A to Sesame Translation" guide on that disk?  Because I have a question about that as well.

The "Before translating" step A.f. reads
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Only if absolutely necessary, copy the database design, followed by copying all the records to the new design.


This seems to contradict what is required by the "Q&A Database Translation Guide" for a Q&A database to become Generation 1 (page 6, steps 6-9).

I would *much* prefer not having to copy all 27,000+ of my Q&A invoices and 50,000+ Workorders into new databases before translation, because I hate working on Saturdays, even though it would give me a lot of time to play Spider Solitaire and surf the web for pictures of Nikki Cox while it was going on.
  
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Re: Conference disk - error in doc?
Reply #3 - Nov 15th, 2005 at 7:14pm
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The only databases where you should copy design and copy records are:
1. Q&A 5.0 databases that have been redesigned multiple times.
2. Q&A 4.0 databases which have previously given system errors of the type 04xx or 06xx.
For 5.0 you should always work with a gen 1 and copy design is the only way.  For 4.0 (most people) this is not necessary if you have not had the errors.

The guide was written to take care of all situations.  Most Q&A users have never paid attention to system error screens.  Most 5.0 users don't know if they have redesigned their databases because they did it so long ago.

Thus, the conservative approach.
  
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Reply #4 - Nov 15th, 2005 at 7:28pm
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Thank you for the information.  I believe I will have a magnificent collection of Nikki Cox pics by the time I am done.
  
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