Re: Glom tweaks

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 10:44 -0400, Andy Gilmore wrote:
> Hi Murray...

I'm CCing the Glom mailing list.

> I don't know how much more work on Glom you're still doing, but I have
> a few questions.

I'm not working on it much now. It's hard to spend so much time on a
project when it doesn't bring in any income.

>  There doesn't seem to be any way to create a new template in the
> Developer mode.

The "templates" are just created via "Save as Example", in the File
menu.

>  I've tried to create a mailing list using the Small Business Example
> with two street address lines, to allow for both the street name and
> number AND an apartment, unit, floor, building...whatever...number,
> but I'm stuck. If I can't create a totally new template, can I at
> least change the name of the "address_street: Street" field to be
> "Street 1" and create a second field to be "address_street: Street 2"?

For these things you might even be able to change the XML directly. Its
format is fairly obvious.

But do you really want to change the template (the thing used to create
new files/systems), or do you just want to change your own system,
created from a template?

> Additionally, how do I alphabetize my contact list? If I use a "First
> Name", "Last Name" arrangement, can I assign the Last Name column as
> the sort column?

You can sort columns in the list by clicking on the column header.

> Finally, is the Contact ID field absolutely necessary? It doesn't seem
> to serve any purpose when I export the data in .csv format to use with
> the glabels program.

When exporting, you can choose which columns to exports.

The various IDs fields allow related records to be linked together.

> I've been a long-time user of FileMaker Pro 5 (running in Wine), but
> it mysteriously stopped working a few weeks back. Since I refuse to go
> back to a Windows environment, I want the closest thing I can find to
> FMP5, and Glom has come highly recommended online...and so far, I like
> what I see. 
>
> Thanks in advance...I hope you can help me out!!



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