Database saved as custom property

[Signe Marie Sanne]

John Ridge skrev:

> on 6/6/05 1:11 pm,  Signe Marie Sanne wrote :
> 
> Hello,
> Since someone a week ago said he had not ventured into custom properties, I
> have uploaded a very simple stack which shows how you make a small archive
> stack and save it as a custom property, all with just one card. On RevOnLine
> you will find it under my user name "sms", or under Categories
> -->Programming. Its name is CustPropDatabase.
> 
> Marvellous! Now it is not so frightening... I need to think hard about this
> solution - are there any serious size limitations? If it could replace 1000
> cards, some containing c. 100k text, it would be FAST...

Glad you liked it.
It is actually a very useful way of handling data. Since I discovered it, I 
have gradually replaced my many data cards in each stack with only one 
single data card with custom properties.

I do not know about size limitations, others have to answer that. In my 
project for the Indian dialect Boruca, I use 143 various custom properties 
totalling 1700 lines of data. This is for teaching the dialect itself 
(vocabulary training, gapfilling and translation exercises and other types 
of exercises/games + grammatical analysis of the corpus + vocabulario in 
which a certain word can be seen in all the contexts in which it occurs).
-- 
Signe Marie Sanne

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