Look at http://lace.lacefairy.com/ID/laceID.htm how many check boxes you
would need. There would be almost no end to it.
I guess Tamara is rather a browsing type of person than a query type and
won't have too much trouble with her limited number of books. For others who
get inspired and can use Excel or somethig with similar functionality,
http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/Catalogue.gif shows how to overcome the
problem Robin sketches: check "or" in the dialog of step two.
Jo
for the purposes of categorizing a book according to main subject
> matter "mixed" would probably suffice - with a note in the
"miscellaneous" field to say BL and tatting or whatever.
The problem with this system is the difficulty in retrieving by lace
type. If you want to find a book in your library that has BL, you now
have to retrieve all books that have "BL" in the category field *and*
all books that have both "mixed" in the category field and "BL-plus-
anything-else" in the miscellaneous field. It takes a relatively
sophisticated database program to specify this many conditions, or to
specify "field includes XXX as part of its contents". And it takes
more research and learning on the part of the user to be able to do it,
even if the software is capable.
This is where a series of check-boxes is useful, so that you don't need
to be able to specify complex conditions for retrieval.
Robin P.
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