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jyellis Full Member Members Offline No personal text Posts: 114 Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Area Joined: May 19^th, 2003	Attaching Saved Retrieves and Sorts Jan 6^th, 2004 at 10:42pm	Print Post
	In Sesame I have deleted all the "translated" retrieves and sorts from Q&A (I deleted them from the spec manager) I have created a few retrieves and sorts and save them via the "Spec Manager". But when I go to the Designer. Open my report, attach specs;select a different spec;then under "Select a spec" all I see is my old retrieves (or sorts)...I don't see the new one I created. And I don't understand why the old ones appear. Your support & help is much appreciated. Thanks Judy


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Attaching Saved Retrieves and Sorts Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 10:46pm	Print Post
	The Designer file is in the state is was in when you first created it. To update your spec list, open your db in Designer. This will give you the opportunity to create a new dsr. You can either make a new dsr, or overwrite your existing one. Either way, you will have a dsr that knows about the changes made in the db. Unless you are deliberately trying to maintain versions, it is a good idea to recreate your dsr whenever you want to make design changes.

	- Hammer The plural of anecdote is not data.
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jyellis Full Member Members Offline No personal text Posts: 114 Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Area Joined: May 19^th, 2003	Re: Attaching Saved Retrieves and Sorts Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 11:27pm	Print Post
	Could you re-state that answer? The first sentence lost me.


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Attaching Saved Retrieves and Sorts Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 11:38pm	Print Post
	When you translated your database from Q&A, Sesame made a db. At some point, you opened the db in Designer and got a dsr. That dsr had all your old specs. You then went back to your db and saved a bunch of new specs. The dsr does not know you did this. It has no permanent connection to the db. You need to open your db in Designer again and either make a new dsr, or overwrite the existing one. Then when you make a report, it will see your new specs.

	- Hammer The plural of anecdote is not data.
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jyellis Full Member Members Offline No personal text Posts: 114 Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Area Joined: May 19^th, 2003	Re: Attaching Saved Retrieves and Sorts Reply #4 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 11:40pm	Print Post
	Thanks, I'm sorry I had to ask you to re-state that. But I understand now.


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Attaching Saved Retrieves and Sorts Reply #5 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 11:48pm	Print Post
	Quote: Thanks, I'm sorry I had to ask you to re-state that. But I understand now. No problem. It can be a bit confusing at first, but you'll get the hang of it! I'm actually planning to write an article on this subject for Inside Sesame.

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