[ic] Product maint.

George Loch george@halescreative.com
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:41:49 -0700


Using phpmyadmin and sql would be a great solution for me but, my client is
joe non-savvy computer user so, no go on that. I will probably have to build
him a little form page to play with the products.txt file safely. I think he
would even struggle in excel.

GL

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Korkin <jason@korksoft.com>
To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] Product maint.


> The only problem with using Excel is that it truncates fields... you
> need to watch out for that.  A good solution is if you are running under
> a MySQL database use something like PHPAdmin - that gives you the
> flexibility you need.
>
> Best,
>
> Jason Korkin.
>
>
> Dan McFarland wrote:
> >
> > Make sure you save in in a TAB delimited form.  When you open it, there
is a
> > second field for delimiter that defaults to ".  Remove it as well.  When
you
> > save it, save it back as a tab delimited text file and choose the
options to
> > save it as it is, not in excel format.
> >
> > (I agree, Excel -well, Microsoft in general, are some pretty lame
products
> > with very little flexibility)
> >
> > Works for me! :)
> >
> > Dan
> >
>
>
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