Re: Custom appointment book setup question

#1

Get your date field on your layout.
Make sure you can access it during find
go into find mode
Enter the date riange you need as following: beginDate ... endDate
you could enter: 02-01-2006SPACE...SPACE03-31-2006
and commit your search, you should find feb and march

All your other questions seem to be layout related. You can make as many
layouts as you need to suit your needs. So one odd and a separate even page
layout are possible. you can even script them to print them alternately.

Ursus

Quote:

Everything except for the displayed calendar day are static objects to be
adjusted as needed in Layout. Thus if an individual quits, I re-do the
layout. The single database component is the date:

The most important part of this, and the part I can't figure, due to not
using FileMaker a lot, is how to get the date to span (and print) for a
given range. Thus I might want to print 60 days worth of calendar with the
dates starting Feb 1 2006. How can I set my date field up to permit this?

I am going to post a .pdf of a single page of the layout to assist in
visualizing what I have in mind.

ps this groups doesn't allow attachments

#2

Are you planning on tracking any information in the database or do you
figure you need a database just to display the date on the printout?

Usually you would have 1 record / date.
Usually the found set of records are printed.
Therefore if your found set of records are for the month of March you
would print 30 pages, assuming one day requires the entire page.

#3

I'm sorry, you'll have to leave the space out.

enter find
type in your field, which should be a date-field; startdate...enddate
perform find.

just tried it and it worked for me,

Ursus

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Quote:

Thanks very much. Apologies for the attachments! I believe I have done as
you've laid out here, assuming you're using 'SPACE' for a space-character.
At any rate, tying variants of what you've posted into the DATE field
produces "No records match this set of find requests".

On 2006-01-08 14:55:43 -0500, "ursus.kirk" <secret (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> said:

Get your date field on your layout.
Make sure you can access it during find
go into find mode
Enter the date riange you need as following: beginDate ... endDate
you could enter: 02-01-2006SPACE...SPACE03-31-2006
and commit your search, you should find feb and march

All your other questions seem to be layout related. You can make as many
layouts as you need to suit your needs. So one odd and a separate even
page layout are possible. you can even script them to print them
alternately.

Ursus

Everything except for the displayed calendar day are static objects to
be adjusted as needed in Layout. Thus if an individual quits, I re-do
the layout. The single database component is the date:

The most important part of this, and the part I can't figure, due to not
using FileMaker a lot, is how to get the date to span (and print) for a
given range. Thus I might want to print 60 days worth of calendar with
the dates starting Feb 1 2006. How can I set my date field up to permit
this?

I am going to post a .pdf of a single page of the layout to assist in
visualizing what I have in mind.

ps this groups doesn't allow attachments

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