Spent much of today testing X commands. During testing I needed an application with a fair amount of text, so I grabbed the Forum and turned it into a database, with fields for title, poster, time and date of post, and the content of the post. I also stripped and converted the text, to be clear of HTML, etc... yielding some 10,000 records.

Does anyone have any use for this?

I'd be very interested in this also.

I would like to have it too.  Can it be updated with new posting on the forum on the ongoing basis with ease?

Well, the search works very well to dig into the past post. It even searches the archieves. However, when the postings have been archieved, the link inside the posting linking to other post of the forum failed to work, as I noticed.

Put into Sesame database, Create new KeyWords field. and use as offline Help/Search.    Very useful at our local Sesame Users Group meetings where Internet access has not been available.

PS - Bob -post ONE more for an even THOUSAND posts!

I checked the total post on this forum so far they are 9964 with this post.  You search the forum using string ".", and maximum days 1000 maximum  Maximum Posts 12000.This should retrieve practically all the  posts in a single webpage. If you have Acrobat Writer, you can this webpage as pdf file. You can search by whatever keyword you want to search in pdf file offline.  I guess this serves the same purpose. The pdf file will have saved even the links in the post so you can jump to website to the linked pages. I thought this is just another alternative for research.

Bharat Naik