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Related Name not Smart Parameter
Authored by: galaher on Feb 13, '06 09:29:26AM

I've found that I was missing a field that I could define relationships with. For example, families that belong to my daughters school. There cards have nothing in common with which to define a smart group. I used the 'notes' field to add a keyword like "School", but I find that area, which can be edited with out any gui feed back, better suited to a kind of scrapbook or sticky notes use.

When I found that Apple had added the 'related name' field, I was elated and created an Applescript to add custom field called 'Keyword' with a user defined value.

when I went to create smart groups based on the attribute of the 'Keyword' field, I was disappointed to find 'Related names' is not included in the list of fields that can be used to define a smart group. Using 'card' works but also includes any instance of the attribute that's outside of the 'Keyword' field. That defeats the purpose.

Any one have a work around?



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Related Name not Smart Parameter
Authored by: mark hunte on Feb 13, '06 10:12:59AM

try card contains.

Or use 'department'

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Related Name not Smart Parameter
Authored by: galaher on Feb 13, '06 10:07:09PM

Thanks Mark.

I thought of using 'Department' or something like that, but since a record could have multiple associations, I need a field that has a plus sign (can have multiple instances of different keywords in one record). Fooling around a bit, it looks like I could create a custom email address called 'Keyword' and put 'High School' in there. It seems to work, but it's certainly a klug that could have unexpected ramifications.

Still open to suggestions.



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Related Name not Smart Parameter
Authored by: mark hunte on Feb 14, '06 03:12:45AM

For my records, I have started using a custom field in the Related names.
named 'category'
I need to know categories for each record. sport, News, Celeb, et.

so I put a unique entry in the filed. i.e ccSport, ccNews, ccCeleb.

These can be on the same line with a space in between and a + if you want one.
or have a category each.

If I want a smart group for News and Sport I use

All
card contains = ccSport
+
card contains = ccNews





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