AskSam version 6

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Posted by zeoli
2005-03-26 16:49:21

Has anyone else been trialing the beta of version 6 of AskSam? I’ve been trying it out over the past week and I think they may have actually begun to make this program workable. The key new feature relating to this forum is the virtual folder list that creates an hierarchical view of your data.

The way this works is that you can designate a field as a folder view. When you enter a word or phrase in this field, it shows the new record in a folder named that word. For instance, say you have a Field called “projects,” you can then view your data broken out by project. Type “Marketing Plan” in the field and there will be a folder for Marketing Plan and any records you create with Marketing Plan in the project field will show up under that folder. A cool feature is that you can also create subfolders automatically. So, type “Marketing Plan\Ad Campaign” in the project field and you will have a subfolder of the Marketing Plan folder called Ad Campaign. You can also switch which field is the folder field, which might also be useful with certain kinds of data.

So, I guess they’ve been learning a little from ECCO and Zoot.

There are several other significant improvements. You can see a listing of these at the following URL:

http://www.asksam.com/beta/asksam6/fixlog.asp

Steve Z.

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