Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:17:06 -0400
From: HENRY TOBER
To: ALL
Subject: Need File Area Name
Newsgroups: win.server.wcreports
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X-Mailer: Wildcat! Interactive Net Server v7.0.454.5
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   We use Wildcat! as a bbs to allow doctors, hospitals and collection
agencies 
upload/download files.  We set up each user with their own access profile
and file areas to 
strictly limit who can access what.  With our collection agency users, we
have two file areas to 
download from for each user; one called reports and the other called data. 
We provide files in 
each file area for every agency each month.  Our need is to be able to
quickly see who has (or 
hasn't) downloaded their files from either/both area(s).  We purchased
WcReports to do this.

   Due to several different reasons, the file areas for many of the users
are not in 
consecutive order numerically.  When we define in File Match on the General
tab the filename 
string, date range and check 'Files that have never been accessed' the
results list in file area 
numerical order.  For example...

 **** [7] PAC Data File Area              
 **** [8] PAC Reports File Area           
 **** [12] Abel Credit Data Area           
 **** [14] ARMS-Huntvly Data Area          
 **** [16] ARMS-Marlton Data Area          
 **** [50] Valley Credit Data Area         
 **** [52] NEAR Reports Area               
 **** [54] Abel Credit Reports Area        
 **** [55] ARMS-Huntvly Reports Area       
 **** [56] ARMS-Marlton Reports Area       
 **** [57] Collection Center Reports Area  
 **** [58] Collection Info. Reports Area   
          (All files listed removed to shorten example)
      
   It's would be a lot easier to compare the file areas for a particular
user if I could get the results 
in alphabetical order so that all of a user's file areas would be with each
other.

   I have also tried exporting the file list as an Excel file so that I
could then sort the file so that I 
COULD get all file areas for a user together.  The problem with this tactic
is that the FILE AREA 
NAME is not an available field to be defined and so, I can't sort it the
way I want to.  With only 
the AREA NUMBER, it's even more confusing.

   We currently have about 150 file areas with several hundred files in the
areas.  Having to 
recreate the file areas so that they are in the order I need would be a
task I want to avoid.

   Is there a way that I can define the FILE AREA NAME as an available
field or perhaps 
something that I am not aware of so that I can arrange/define the data
better than I currently 
know how to?

   Or perhaps, is there a way to get the FILE AREA NAME defined as an
available field in the 
next update for WcReports?
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