ebase Pro (versions 2.00-2.20) user support

Container for several forums where people can discuss using the second version of ebase, developed for FileMaker 5, 5.5, and 6.

Installation for a single user

Discussion about how to get ebase v. 2 and get it running on a single computer (for 1 user at a time)

Installation for multiple users

Discussion about how to get ebase v. 2 and get it running on a network (for 2 or more users at a time)

Settings and configuration

Discussion on how to tailor ebase to your organization with settings OTHER THAN log codes. (See Data entry forum for log/code configuration discussion)

Data entry, configuring the log using log codes

Discussion on how to configure/use ebase's Log to track whatever kind of information you need to store about your contacts and your interactions with them.

Communications

How to use ebase Pro as a tool for producing and tracking print, email, and voice communications

Queries: how to search for and find your data

Discussion on strategies and techniques for finding your data

Data analysis and reporting, data export

Discussion on how to get useful data out of ebase Pro

Customizations, add-on modules, and special uses

Discussion on how you can adapt ebase for new uses

Getting back to the classic program

We have been using the classic ebase for a few years now. We had a volunteer doing some work for us and they installed a newer version of Ebase, Pro 2.11.

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Log Code Data Transfer

Hi,

I am currently renaming existing log codes and adding new ones in ebase version 2.20 and I have a question regarding log entry data transfer.

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Codegenerator.200 error

Error1

I am having a problem that I wonder if someone can explain/help to solve. The description is as follows:

Ebase version: 2.20 7/14/2007 Release build
Type of install: Server/Client multiuser

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metadata & metaflags

I've installed 2.20 runtime on Windows. Have experimented with sample logs. Have set up ours - including a "Board with Metaflag" intending to have current (yes) to reflect "current" and (no) to be "former".

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Serving options in a OSX 10.5 envrionment

hi folks,

i am trying to serve ebase to four users in one office. all our machines are macs on OSX 10.5. we own copies of filemaker 7 and filemaker allows us to downgrade to 6. i also scored a filemaker 5.5 server donation.

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Report Contact Link giving unexpected results

Hello all,

My goal is to have a list of all the people who gave a gift of membership and their gift recipients. I have been setting up community links between them (giftee and giftor) for over a year.

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Printing Complete Donor History to File

Our database contains 1543 donors. We would love to have access to the CDH, but if we were to print it, it would be well over 2000 pages, and extremely difficult to search.

I have printed it to file, but I can't figure out which type of file it is. I can't open it with the usual MS applications, or in any Adobe apps.

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Email problem

When I try to send an email through ebase, I get this message:

ERROR: Connect: Developer's Password does not match.

I can send the email from the email address directly (not through ebase).

Anybody have any idea what's going on here? If so, please contact me at courtney@hub25.org.

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Yarding Out Accurate Payment Data from the Past

Hello. I was trying to compare the efficacy of our different appeals and was dismayed to discover that the .csv file that I exported wasn't what I was expecting.

I was searching for everyone who had a certain solicitation log code used in the past, and accompanying payment. My list of contacts was accurate, but the payment on the report was the latest payment that they made, not the one from the past that I was looking for.

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Log Reports Not Working

When running a report using the Basic Log Entry Export...it doesn't work! I can see the entries related to the log code when I run other reports, but I can't get this particular report to run. It continually tells me that "no records were found matching my criteria" when I know there are.

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