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Need sample club database
I am new to Cardbox. My use case is a club database (volunteer organization) would love to get a sample to get started |
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rjeffries | 1-Feb-2012 19:20 Cardbox looks like an elegant system, and is what I want to use to get my wife extracted from an Excell I was hoping to find a smaple I can downlaod, but Cardbox samples I have seen do not fit this use case. thanks. rjeffries@gmail.com p.s. I am a little worried by how few comments there are here. Not a great sign. ;) |
JayCee | 2-Feb-2012 09:11 Hi, I am sending you a copy of the database I use for keeping chess players records for Norfolk by email. |
Charles Welling | 2-Feb-2012 09:41 Being a longtime Cardbox user, I think it's a good sign that there's little to talk about. Cardbox just works. Read what it says on the screen and do what it says. Think of a field (item) you would would like to store in your database. Let's assume one of the things you need to store is people's names. Use Insert > Field (you're in the Edit Format mode now) to tell Cardbox you would like to have a new field in your database. You now have a database, in under ten seconds, in which you can store names. Never mind that it is of little use at this stage. The principle of adding more fields, like ADDRESS or whatever, is simply repeating what you've just done. READ THE MANUAL, either the book or the helpfile. It is very well written in plain English. You can do some amazing things with Cardbox once you get acquainted with the more advanced functions, or when you start programming, but there's no real need to. Reading about things that Cardbox can do however, may give you some ideas to improve your database. Whatever you do, you can start as I've described above and you can always add and modify ANYTHING without any trouble at all. Remember that even the most sophisticated Cardbox databases have started with a single field. |
Juan | 2-Feb-2012 10:00 Like Charles says, do not be fooled. I have been using Cardbox for about thirty years. It just works. The Forum is also a good place for any issues and there are always here people, like Charles, who know a lot more than I do and give their time freely. |
Mary Doyle | 2-Feb-2012 13:54 Charles has given you good advice. No doubt you will be pleased to know that you should be able to import your Excel records into Cardbox. Check out CSV in the help file. |