Formula Fill Timing Issue

[Ken Doucet]

Pete, I was surprised as well but am not unhappy with Panorama. After just a
couple of days with demo I purchased it and have no regrets. The fact that I
had to go out to another database to do a join (done in a couple of minutes)
was also influenced by my newbiness coupled with the fact that for me
getting my table into a usable Panorama format was paramount. I looked
around for a join type functionality in Panorama but couldn't find one so in
future when I run into events that seem to take too much time I will
consider my out of the Panorama box database to fill the gap. I had let the
formulafill process run for an hour a couple of different times with no idea
when the end would be in sight.

Having said that, once I got the data back into Panoram I just love the
"fluid" (Jim Rea's term) of the database and in past week have gone through
1400 pages of pdf documentation and watched all the screencasts a couple of
times because I want to take advantage of it's great capabilities. My next
step is to take apart some of the sample databases as part of my learning
process.

Ken

Message: 7
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:20:30 -0500
From: "Pete" <trackmanpete at comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Formula Fill Timing Issue
To: "'Panorama Questions & Answers \(Discussion\)'" <qna at provue.com>
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Yikes, so much for a fast Ram based database.  Is this just an inherent
weakness or is there an alternative, such as perhaps sorting both databases
in ID order so they line up properly and then doing a copy and paste from
the second database field to the added field in the first database?

Ken was able to resolve his issue by going back to a relational database and
doing a simple join.  I talked him into using Panorama because it was so
fast and could manipulate data so easily.  I hope I don't have to eat crow.
I am still stuck back on the PC version 4.02, so I don't know what lies
ahead yet in that fancy 5.5 version.

Pete Schuder