27 Mar 2017: see User-Friendly Excel Exports, part 6 for an updated approach.
Well, we’ve reached what may well be the final posting in this extended series of articles. We’ve covered a lot of ground, and this article assumes familiarity with what has come before (in parts 1, 1.1, 2, 3 and 4).
Today we’re going to look at a couple “Virtual List” implementations of the User-Friendly Excel Export technique, which will, among other things, allow us to eliminate these calculated fields from the Contacts table…
…as well as the corresponding set of fields in Donations.
Bruce Robertson’s Virtual List technique has made a couple previous appearances on FileMaker Hacks…
…so I won’t rehash its merits in detail here, but if you aren’t familiar with it, I recommend you check out one or both of these earlier articles. Continue reading “User-Friendly Excel Exports, part 5”