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electricwind Posted - Feb 10 2007 : 15:32:54
Hi Nigel,

Love this program!

Situation: I have a web form that is an itemized list of products purchased. Each item is listed using the same FIELD NAME.

Question: Is there a way to have MLK extract data from several instances of the same field name within a single message? E.g.:

Quantity: 1
Product: Widget12
Quantity: 4
Product: Doodad2

The custom fields designated within MLK are "Quantity" and "Product."

As it is now, it would seem, MLK only reads the first instance, ignoring other instances.

Thanks!
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xequte Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 03:11:55
Hi Boyd

For a coming update we will have support for multiple web form formats, which will help you in this situation. Your current options include creating a second database and enabling the option that all databases have unique settings. Or you could change the name of the "Product" field in your web form so that it matches the names in your other forms.



Nigel
Xequte Software
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electricwind Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 16:46:29
Mmmm... well, this gives me an idea, anyway... My situation is that I use that Group field designation, as I'm running three different incoming web forms.

If I create a New Database so I can redefine the Group field, as, say Products, when I run MLK through Outlook, will it look at both databases and process accordingly? Or do I need to switch databases in MLK and then run it through Outlook?

Boyd
xequte Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 02:54:35
Hi

MLK ignores all repeated fields except the first the one. The reason is that there is no set way that it could handle such a situation.

For instance if the "Full Name" field is repeated, should it use the first instance or the second instance or both?

However there is one important exception, if the GROUP field is repeated (Not a field of the name "Group", but the field that you have specified for groups under View>Options, Web Forms, then MLK will read all of the fields, e.g. if you have a message with:

Group: A
Group: B
Group: C

Then the user is added to groups A, B and C.


So, I guess if you specified that "Product" was your group field then for the message you specify they woudl be added to groups of the name Widget12 and Widget12



Nigel
Xequte Software
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