Is this possible.

Martin martin at smartdesigners.co.uk
Mon Dec 19 07:58:03 EST 2005


Hi Charles

Thanks for the quick response, The information is is already produced in
Excel, but if it would be easier I could change this format, I forgot to
mention that this program would be shipped on a cd so the end user I guess
would have to drag the program onto there own pc so they could update or add
articles to the program.

A question for you Charles, Whats the difference with Revolution and Visual
Basic? As you can see I have no Idea where to start.

Thanks
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Charles
Hartman
Sent: 19 December 2005 12:50
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Is this possible.

You'll get better answers from others who know more, but two things  
seem clear to me:

1) Revolution is a fine way to do this

2) Using Excel is not going to be the easiest way (very not); are you  
stuck with that? what form do you get the data in?

Charles Hartman


On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Martin wrote:

> Hi there
>
>
>
> I am looking to purchase Revolution, I have no programming  
> experience but I
> have a task I wish to tackle. This task is using an excel  
> spreadsheet full
> of reviews and articles, these articles are broken down into  
> columns with
> headings these headings are criteria within the article. (example)-  
> I have
> over 1500 articles on fishing, each article has a heading, a  
> species of
> fish, what bait was used to catch the fish, a date, methods etc. I  
> want to
> make a quick reference quide (programme) to find information  
> quickly from
> the excel spreadsheet which in turn can be updated by the program if
> possible. The front end of such a program will have drop down menus  
> say 6 in
> a line. The first drop down box will display all the fish species,  
> The user
> will select a fish (a Carp) from this list, which will then in turn  
> populate
> all the other drop down menus with information on Carp, next drop  
> down menu
> would be bait (maggot) etc etc.
>
>
>
> So the end result would generate all articles containing the fish  
> Carp,
> caught on the bait maggot, in the year 1990, on a lake, in England,  
> in the
> Morning.
>
> There may be 30 results, so I would like the article headings to  
> show up in
> a box below the drop down boxes, these headings can be selected to  
> show the
> full article, say in another box below. This then can be printed out.
>
>
>
> Questions
>
> Can this be done with Revolution and Excel
>
> Is this type of thing difficult to produce.
>
> Can this system be updated from the program and not Excel
>
> Could all the drop down menus have all the information contained in  
> them so,
> If my initial search was on date (year) this would populate all the  
> other
> menus, so then I could search for the the species of fish etc.
>
>
>
> I know this is a bit vague, but I was wondering if this could be done.
>
>
>
> Let me know your thoughts.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> martin at smartdesigners.co.uk
>
>
>
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