RE: Question: Marking records

2004-11-18 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] 1- I need a way to mark (somewhere) that the record came up in a search. i.e. 700 records were returned in a search, each one needs to a) be marked that it came up in a search b) that number needs to be incremented 2- Step further, out of those 700 records, user chooses to view details

RE: Question: Marking records

2004-11-18 Thread Stuart Felenstein
--- Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 1- I need a way to mark (somewhere) that the record came up in a search. i.e. 700 records were returned in a search, each one needs to a) be marked that it came up in a search b) that number needs to be incremented 2- Step further, out

RE: Question: Marking records

2004-11-18 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I'm thinking this through. In other words, when a record is returned in a search , and insert statement makes an entry into another table? This will involve scripting as well as sql statements ? [/snip] Well, you could use triggers and stored procedures, but yeyou are going to have

Re: Question: Marking records

2004-11-18 Thread Brent Baisley
It depends on whether you are tracking info for individual users or just on a global basis. On a global basis, you just need to run an update query: UPDATE dbTable SET searchCount=searchCount+1 WHERE queryparams The default value for searchCount would be 0, if the record never came up in a

Re: Question: Marking records

2004-11-18 Thread Stuart Felenstein
--- Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on whether you are tracking info for individual users Individual users (lucky me!) Now, if you want to keep separate logs for each user, you need to create a log table. The log table would have the following fields:

Re: Question: Marking records

2004-11-18 Thread Brent Baisley
Sorry, logTable is just an arbitrary name I came up with. You can name the table anything you want, like SearchViewTracking. On Nov 18, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Stuart Felenstein wrote: --- Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on whether you are tracking info for individual users