An Old Man Needs Help

[Bob Stockler]

John Esak wrote (on Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:55:50PM -0400):

| If the client is really on 4.8, why not just do a descending index on the
| date segment??

filePro 4.8.x indexes only do ascending stuff.

And he didn't want to pay for 25 users on a version of filePro
that did do descending indexes just for this.

Bob

| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
| > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
| > Behalf Of Bob Stockler
| > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:33 PM
| > To: filePro Mailing List
| > Subject: An Old Man Needs Help
| >
| >
| > I used to know how to do this, but brain fade at how many years
| > old I am (at this age I can't remember), so I need help (though
| > I could probably figure it out myself in a week or two).
| >
| > The client is on filePro 4.8.?.
| >
| > He needed a -decending- sort on Invoice Numbers (9,.0).  I added
| > a field (9,.0) to the file and populated it with values that are
| > "9999999999" - Invoice Number, which worked OK, but it turned out
| > that his Invoice Numbers started out in 1992 to be <= 6 digits,
| > then (at some point in time, for unknown reasons) became 7 digit
| > numbers for a while, and then reverted to being 6 digit numbers,
| > so he isn't getting what he wanted.
| >
| > So I want to give him a decending sort on dates.  I'm thinking,
| > add a field to the records - Inverse_Date 10 mm/dd/yyyy - then
| > populate it with "12/31/9999" - Invoice_Date, and sort on it.
| >
| > This is a secondary sort on Customer_Number, so I think this
| > should do it.  Will it ? ? ?
| >
| > Bob (who doesn't need any "Have you tried it?" responses)
| >
| > --
| > Bob Stockler +-+ bob at trebor.iglou.com +-+ http://members.iglou.com/trebor
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