On Saturday 29 August 2009 4:59:14 pm Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I am charged with migrating a Lotus Approach db + forms. > > Approach (97 I think :) has this function where, when viewing a record > or within a form (or in the spreadsheet view for that matter) one can > press CTRL-F, for "find records". > > The form I am on becomes a blank form (all fields cleared, but all > fields for that form still present on the form) and I can enter text > into any field, with wildcards. Primarily * to represent zero or more > characters is what we use. > > We are just learning PG, as our Approach replacement. > > Is there a libre db forms client which we can use to get this same > functionality? > > If not, as a last resort backup plan, can anyone recommend a proprietary > db forms client which can achieve this functionality? > > > Just to be clear on how Approach works: > > The "select" that occurs when pressing ENTER is an AND of each field's > select criteria. This allows us to do a more specific search of records, > by entering (if we know it) a small portion of extra data (eg part of a > phone number), or a more general search (enter less of the name field > for example, perhaps I just misspelt it and that's why I got no search > results, so I just shorten the name to the part that I know must be > spelt right, adding wildcards where appropriate. > > For example if searching for a Susan Macaby, and I don't know if she has > a middle name or not, and I'm not sure on the spelling of her last name, > I might search for "Susan*Ma*b*" (without the quotes) which will be > pretty well guaranted to bring up her record. But where I know more > information I put it, with less or no wildcards, to cause a faster > search to occur. > > > TIA > Zenaan I have built similar functionality using Dabo (http://dabodev.com/). Another option is to use the Base component of OpenOffice. If you have access to a copy of OO then enter the following search term (data;filtering in forms) in the Help|Index Search term dialog for a more detailed explanation. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
