Re: An "or" search using checkboxes.

On Feb 26, 2:47 pm, Helpful Harry <helpful_ha...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <1172505747.384974.239...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

"NScheffey" <NSchef...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How about this: Create a global field, named something like
gCitySelection, and set it to display as a checkbox set drawing from a
value list of your potential cities. Then create a relationship
between gSelectionCity and the City field in your Volunteers record.
Finally, create a portal set to show records from that relationship.
Now as the user selects the various checkboxes, the portal will change
to reflect the selection.
I have just implemented a solution using these selection portals
instead of find requests, and I'm very pleased with it so far.

That's fine as long as all you want to perform the Find on is the City
field. The problem will come when someone wants to do something like
find everyone in "Calgary" with a surname of "Jones".

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

That functionality wouldn't be difficult to add, and with an exploded
key you could perform searches on text fragments from as many fields
(First Name,Last name, City, Company, etc.) as you wanted.
Nate

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