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  • Subject: Re: Mixed Case Keys
  • From: Peter Coffin <phcoffin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:33:46 -0400

> For example I would expect "Phe" would bring "Phelps, Bill" to the panel
> without needing to hit the roll key even once.

First screen on my system with that test ends at Sally Pheasant. One roll
gets to Frank Phebas. (Okay, it's a pretty big database...)

> My experience so far has been that as soon as you start making some
> instances case-sensitive and other instances not case-sensitive for the
> same field you create an uncertainty for the user.  And, most users can
> hit the shift key pretty easily.

The solution we're using involves maintaining two fields for a person's name,
one formated and cased as the person wants to see it, and a second field that
is hidden from users that is maintained in all upper case, with the last word
from the formatted field (before any commas) placed first in the field hidden
field. The hidden field is used for all the sorting and searching.

Peter H. Coffin
phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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