Joining OrderRel to Memo table

I have also hit the road block you have Dick.
In programming and database design the memos and the change log were created
with this universal design concept which makes them attached to different
areas of the system with out rewriting and creating things from scratch. The
trade off is you create goofy table joins to universally connect and store
data which we have to live with. This ranks right up there with sales reps
stored in a string in field.


Patrick Winter


-----Original Message-----
From: PLAMAN DICK [mailto:dick.plaman@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:54 AM
To: Vantage (vantage@yahoogroups.com)
Subject: [Vantage] Joining OrderRel to Memo table

I sent this post yesterday and received zero responses. Possibly it has
never been done!
I am trying to join OrderRel to the Memo table. (the memo table defies
logic)
Anyway, I have created my calculated "RelatedToFile" entry and have joined
to Company and then to RelatedToFile. I want to link to key1, (orderno)
key2, (lineno) and key3 (relno). These fields are numeric and do not show
up as valid join fields. I tried to convert them to character fields but
they still do not show up to link. I also tried to convert the character
fields in the memo table to numeric, but that did not work either. I has
requested help from Epicor, and they are looking into it.

Why in the H*** is it so hard to get information from this table?

thanks,




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I sent this post yesterday and received zero responses. Possibly it has
never
been done!
I am trying to join OrderRel to the Memo table. (the memo table defies
logic)
Anyway, I have created my calculated "RelatedToFile" entry and have joined
to Company and then to RelatedToFile. I want to link to key1, (orderno)
key2, (lineno) and key3 (relno). These fields are numeric and do not show
up
as valid join fields. I tried to convert them to character fields but they
still do
not show up to link. I also tried to convert the character fields in the
memo table
to numeric, but that did not work either. I has requested help from Epicor,
and
they are looking into it.

Why in the H*** is it so hard to get information from this table?

thanks,




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I have written reports on memo table in access.

One for example, links ordered to memo.

Here's what is do:

Create a query on Memo that converts key1 ro a number and filters for
related field = OrderHed

Then, link orderhead to my new query (memo_OrderHead) and select the fields
I want.

Works well.



-----Original Message-----
From: PLAMAN DICK [mailto:dick.plaman@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:54 AM
To: Vantage (vantage@yahoogroups.com)
Subject: [Vantage] Joining OrderRel to Memo table

I sent this post yesterday and received zero responses. Possibly it has
never
been done!
I am trying to join OrderRel to the Memo table. (the memo table defies
logic)
Anyway, I have created my calculated "RelatedToFile" entry and have joined
to Company and then to RelatedToFile. I want to link to key1, (orderno)
key2, (lineno) and key3 (relno). These fields are numeric and do not show
up
as valid join fields. I tried to convert them to character fields but they
still do
not show up to link. I also tried to convert the character fields in the
memo table
to numeric, but that did not work either. I has requested help from Epicor,
and
they are looking into it.

Why in the H*** is it so hard to get information from this table?

thanks,




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]




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(2) To search through old msg's goto:
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