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Lynda:
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 25, 01:53:50
One easy way to make the date fields (birth, marriage, death, etc.) more flexible would be to make these text fields, not true date fields. So you could then enter "12 days before Elder" or "15 Sim Days."
In the process, however, you would lose the ability to sort or search by "after" or "before" a certain date.
We can still keep track of when a Sim was created in the database, but this wouldn't necessarily be the "birth" date. So in essence there would be two fields, a Birth date which is however you want to enter it, but not sortable, and a Creation date which is the date that the record was created.
Thoughts? Comments?
This lovely utility is going to make me go out and buy ink for my printer and a three hole punch, I can see it now!
I personally think two different date type fields would be ideal - one for real-life date tracking and one as a flexible text field for sim day tracking. I don't know how many people would use two different fields though, so that might just clutter things up. I could just pick a random year in the recent past (1980 maybe) and use real-life dates for sim days.
I fiddled around with the reports a bit and they're great. I would LOVE it though if the picture we've entered on the sim's tab showed up next to their name in the Household report. It looks to me like you can print individual tabs (which I assume would include the picture) but the tabs need to be set up to print as Landscape (which is why I can't see the picture attached) and I don't see any place to set up printing as landscape as Page Setup is greyed out.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 24, 03:49:34
- Just to let you know, clicking on the thumbnail picture will take you to a full-screen version of the picture.
This does not work for me. Any idea why?
knitro:
The only weirdness I've experienced so far, (haven't done much just got names and relationships in) is that sometimes if I put in a female and say she is married, put in her husband, then when I bring him up it says he is female, glitch? not sure...also, wondering, say I have a sim that is married when I put her husband as died (after he dies) and put the grave and stuff into the system, will it automatically say she is widowed?
Pegasys:
Quote from: Kyna on 2005 October 25, 12:31:45
Pegasys, I'm getting an error message when I try to open my database.
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"Sims2.SIM" is damaged and cannot be opened. Use the recover command to recover this file.
I can't find the recover command to recover my data.
The error happened when I was updating a child to a teen and updating her aspiration. That worked ok. Then I want to put in her LTW - tried clicking on the LTW fields to get the drop down list of LTWs and the data base didn't do anything for a few seconds and then it crashed. Now when I try to open I'm getting the above error message.
I'm sorry that this happened. Just so I can understand better, were there a lot of other things happening on your PC at the time you were updating the record? I don't think it had anything to do with updating the LTWs but just that for some unknown reason, FileMaker runtime locked up at that time. Although this can happen, it is pretty rare (not that this makes you feel any better, though).
In any case, let's try to fix it this way. Press Ctrl-Shift at the same time you click on the Sims2DB.EXE file. It should open up a dialog box asking you to select the damaged file. This will recover the file and should fix the problem.
Please let me know if this works.
Thanks,
-- Peg
Pegasys:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 October 25, 14:34:31
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 24, 03:49:34
- Just to let you know, clicking on the thumbnail picture will take you to a full-screen version of the picture.
This does not work for me. Any idea why?
One thing I've noted is that *right* after you insert a picture, in order to go to the full-screen view, you need to click somewhere else first, then click directly on the picture. (Which is a bit annoying, so I just fixed it - in the next release you won't even have to click somewhere else first. Thanks for pointing me to this.)
Does this solve your problem?
-- Peg
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