You won't even need a special view to add Credit Line, so I think that particular request should be very simple.


-----Original Message-----
From: The Museum System (TMS) Users on behalf of Smith, Jeffrey
Sent: Mon 8/18/2008 4:53 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: List View Designer
 
David,

 

The key thing to be comfortable with is creating views in SQL - that's
the key element. The view designer gives you some options after that,
but if you set up the view correctly, the final tweaking in ListView
Designer is much easier - and without errors.

 

Remember that your view must be designed so that no ID repeats twice - a
single row for each object, or exhibition, or loan, or whatever you're
doing.

 

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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Aylsworth, David
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:42 PM
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Subject: List View Designer

 

I had just enough luck with the custom form designer to feel cocky
enough to think I could tackle the list view designer too.  But it looks
so much harder than the form designer!

I have a user who wanted me to add the credit line to a list view so
that she could export it easier to Excel and sort it by donor.  My
initial look at the designer and instructions for playing with the
designer don't immediately tell me that I can add fields to it.  It
looks like I can re-direct the list view to make it return different
data, but I'd have to know the field and column number.  Am I reading
that wrong?

If you guys tell me that I am reading this wrong (admittedly, I'm only
skimming...) I'll take more time and try to teach myself how to do it.
If it's not possible, though, I'd appreciate your telling me not to
waste the time...

Have any of you made custom list views?  Is it as complicated as it
looks?  

I feel incredibly lazy even posting this, but since I have so little
shame left...

Thanks,

David 

David Aylsworth

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Registrar for Collections

telephone:  713-639-7824

fax:  713-639-7780