Dummy Variables in browse screens?

[Tim Fischer]

I'm beating my head against a wall on this one.  Maybe someone can help me?

First off, I'm running FP 5.0.13 on Solaris 9.

I'm trying to organize a lot of data to make things cleaner and faster.
This is a file of trucking companies throughout the US, Canada and Mexico.
To take into account situations where 1 company has multiple offices, I've
created a Terminal File and a Corporate Office file.  All contacts are
stored in a "contacts" file and all addresses (3 per terminal) are stored in
an "address" file.  This is to make change easy - if I need to change an
address that is duplicated in several places, I make one change to the
address file and it's all done.  The idea is to not duplicate data to keep
everything clean.

The problem is, if I need to go into the Corporate Office file, sorted by
"state".  I've figured out how to do that (basically by rclerking into the
address file and using a lot of dummy variables on screen) but I'm needing
to put some of the data from the Corporate Office file into the browse
screen.  Is this possible?  I'd really prefer not to duplicate data, but it
looks like I'm going to have to...

Tim Fischer

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