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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: RE: TMG-L: Newbie needs assistance
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:20:35 -0500


John Cardinal wrote:
>3) TMG allows you to define and set custom flags. You may want to create one
>for use in marking persons as "cleaned" or "fixed". When you create it, you
>set everyone to "unfixed" or whatever. As you review them, you mark them
>"fixed".
>
>I actually did not use such a flag--I had 8000+ people in my database, and I
>didn't think I would ever manually review every entry. That may or may not
>have been a mistake. It seems like it would be *very* useful for smaller
>databases.

This is one of those things that is strictly personal opinion. But I would
say that the larger the dataset is the more beneficial the flag would be.
With smaller datasets, the tendancy would be to do much or all of a project
like editing or cleanup in a very few sessions and there would be less need
for a flag.

When I first imported my data (about six years ago), I had over 9600
people. I created such a custom flag and it was of tremndous help. I
still have that flag and still work on a few hundred of my original import
from time to time. One of these days (been saying that for awhile <g>) I
will bit the bullet and finish that process.

I have other flags used in a similar manner (i.e., keeping track of my
progress on a project for each person in my dataset). All are in various
stages of completion. But the point is that I know for each project who
has or has not been procssed.

FWIW -


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