Re: Absent Hoisting or a Deeper Problem; A Question about Id

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Posted by sub
2005-12-07 02:18:49

> In Idea! I am unable to figure out how to attach documents other than one by one. There’s a basket that’s supposed to help, but it is populated only by three files. I don’t even know why those particular files are there. I’m almost certain I’m overlooking something. I’d appreciate someone’s instruction on how to make the attachment.

The basket (which is shown after “Attachments” is pressed in the toolbar) has two file lists. The lower list is the “most recently used files” from Windows. The upper list are files that you have collected. To collect any file from a Windows Explorer window, right click on it and choose “IDEA2”.

You actually have two choices for attaching multiple files; if they are all in the same directory, just select them and drag them to the attachment pane (the Upper Right one, not the basket); this will automatically create an attachment row for each file.

The other, when files are located in various folders, is to navigate to their locations and collect them by right-clicking and selecting “IDEA2”. When you are done with collecting, go back to IDEA!, check the files you want to attach, click on the database record you want the files to be attached to and press “Imp” in the basket toolbar.

With the second approach you can do all your collection in one go and then distribute the collected files to various database records, since for each record you can check the relevant files.

As you pointed out, IDEA! is more suitable for large databases and this is reflected in its importing tools as well.

alx

[The rest of the text appearing in my previous posting was a copy from the IDEA! Help text I used as a reference; apologies for the confusion]

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