Database saved as custom property

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Mon Jun 6 10:56:48 EDT 2005


Hi John,

> 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?

Well, nothing to worry about, i think ;-)

You can have upt ot 4 GB of custom properties per object!
Each of them can hold up to 4 GB of characters...

Only drawback: A stack can only be up to 4 GB in size ;-)

> If it could replace 1000
> cards, some containing c. 100k text, it would be FAST...

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de



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