Here's one I can't seem to find an answer for.....
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to make a copy of a record? Why you ask?! Anyone who has entered a LOT of records that may only have one slight variance from a previous record knows! It can drive you insane re-entering duplicate info over and over!
An example of this is our Music Users Group - we trade CD's and LP's based on music Style or type (Jazz, Classical, Rock, etc). Obviously, many artists cross over the lines and can have multiple "types". So it is not uncommon to enter the exact same information for another record except for maybe the the category or style type. It would be so great to just hit a "Dulpicate" or "copy" link and have it contain all the same info as the original but with a new record ID. Then all that would be necessary to do would be to change the Style type field without re-entering any of the other info.
We experimented with just modifying the record that we wanted to copy by giving it a new record ID. It worked great assuming we knew what the last record ID that was used was, otherwise, we ran the risk of overwritting another record.
Any ideas how to do this? Thanks in advance!
Liverpool
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to make a copy of a record? Why you ask?! Anyone who has entered a LOT of records that may only have one slight variance from a previous record knows! It can drive you insane re-entering duplicate info over and over!
An example of this is our Music Users Group - we trade CD's and LP's based on music Style or type (Jazz, Classical, Rock, etc). Obviously, many artists cross over the lines and can have multiple "types". So it is not uncommon to enter the exact same information for another record except for maybe the the category or style type. It would be so great to just hit a "Dulpicate" or "copy" link and have it contain all the same info as the original but with a new record ID. Then all that would be necessary to do would be to change the Style type field without re-entering any of the other info.
We experimented with just modifying the record that we wanted to copy by giving it a new record ID. It worked great assuming we knew what the last record ID that was used was, otherwise, we ran the risk of overwritting another record.
Any ideas how to do this? Thanks in advance!
Liverpool