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Edit Field Definitions Window
Clicking MOVE UP makes the currently selected database field
move up the order it appears in the Search and Personal Data win-
M OVE UP
M OVE DOWN
dows. (A “record selector” arrow
——appears beside the currently selected field in the left margin of the window.)
Clicking MOVE DOWN makes the currently selected database
field move down the order it appears in the Search and Personal
Data windows. (You can change the selected record by left-clicking in the the slection column on the left.)
Clicking CREATE makes a new database field appear at the end of
the scrolling list of fields.
CREATE
Clicking DELETE deletes the currently selected field. (You can
change the selected record by left-clicking in the the slection column on the left.)
DELETE
G ENERATE FROM TXT
If you exported data from another database and want to use that
data and its fields in IDentifier for Windows, click GENERATE
FROM TXT. A standard Windows Open dialog box appears. Navigate to and select the database text file you want to import. An
alert window asks you to confirm your decision. If you click OK
in this window, IDentifier for Windows will read and import the
first line of the import text file which identifies all the database
fields being used. Note: the first line of the import text file must
contain the actual field names. Field names in this file must be one
word and separated from each other by commas. Note also: good
practice suggests that your external database’s “export routine”
enclose field data within quotation marks so that commas appearing within, for example, a “Company” database field (e.g., “The
Gap, Ltd.”) will not be construed as a field delimiter. (See “Export
File” on page 117 for an example of the required “first row” in an
import text file.) After generating the fields and field properties
from the import text file, view each field in this window to confirm
that the field properties meet your needs.
Backup your database regularly!
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