Dear EpiData friends,

I figure out a workaround for my problem at last, the only problem now is that my partner has a preference in typing the name of the patient two or three time then to work with the solution.

To remind: Im typing data from patients in which each colects 3 blood samples

so my qes looks something like:

identifier #### name<A > samplenumber # result #

Assuming that my patients will be inserted in the data file three times each, I wanted to avoid differences in the typing of the names, such as missing letter or middle names comes in one record but not in the other.

so the solution was:

projectID.qes

identifier #### name<A >

projectID.chk

identifier key unique end

name key relate identifier projectresult.rec end

projectresult.qes

identifier #### samplenumber # result #

projectresult.chk

identifier key 1 Autosearch list identifier END

The first problem here is that the field name can not automaticaly be inserted in the projectresult.rec, such as with TYPE COMMENT. By consequence, later I will have to merge the two files side by side to have the name of the patient or other id fileds in the results file (not very difficult but not automatic). The work around to see the name while typing is to tile the related windows horizontaly, then one can see the name and the number of the patient at the top of the screen and the data at the botton at the same time. The second problem is that autosearch does not work in the child file. It is necessary to navigate (F7 or F8) by the (few) records of each patient to reach a new empty record for that patient, and at last, for some unknown reason my partner, who is typing the data, likes better to work only with one screen. The idea of pressing F8 to find a new record and F10 each end of child record to return to the parent record did not seem to be atractive.

Maybe Jens could consider a "autocomplete" check command for string fileds for a future update of EpiData entry.

Best regards for all, Pedro Brasil

2008/8/30 epidata-list-request@lists.umanitoba.ca

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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:18:53 +0200 From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: [EpiData-list] Re: Repeat values in other records To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID: 48B883DD.7010603@epidata.dk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

"I looked for in several chk commands but didnt figure out a solution yet. Isit possible, when the cursor is at the name field and a type "Mary", EpiData shows all the "Mary" already in the rec file, so I could pick one of them ....."

Look in helpfile for EpiData Entry under "Autosearch" AUTOSEARCH Autosearch is a look-up function that checks the remaining data file for records with certain data. Look-up can be defined to be on one field or a combination of several fields.

Let us know on the list your solution - and experiences

Regards Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association

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