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Current Year Records feature
Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010 5:43 pm
by RayProudfoot
Hi Steve,
Looking at Cumulus web pages there's one feature which I think would further enhance it. We have All Time Records but once a station has been running a while it takes something exceptional for those to change.
Could we also have Current Year Records? Those would be very useful to website visitors.
Thanks,
Re: Current Year Records feature
Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010 6:54 pm
by daj
It's a good idea, and I think it was in C2, so hopefully it can make it to C1
I do it currently on my site, but I upload all the data to an SQL database on the server and query that so I can see some key info on a specific year (or day if I wish)
Re: Current Year Records feature
Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010 6:57 pm
by steve
It wouldn't be too hard to do; just clone the all-time records code and have a set of records which get reset at the start of the year. Not difficult, just tedious.
Re: Current Year Records feature
Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010 7:03 pm
by RayProudfoot
David,
Thanks. As someone who has used Access for 15 years the idea of having all my data in a database on the server interests me. I'm not familiar with SQL databases but the principle of selecting records remains the same whatever the vehicle.
It's something I want to get into once I have more time (post retirement probably).
Steve, I appreciate it will be tedious but you only need to do it once and everyone benefits.

Re: Current Year Records feature
Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010 7:34 pm
by steve
RayProudfoot wrote:Steve, I appreciate it will be tedious but you only need to do it once and everyone benefits.

And sometimes, doing something that doesn't require too much thought is good for a change

Re: Current Year Records feature
Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010 7:44 pm
by RayProudfoot
steve wrote:RayProudfoot wrote:Steve, I appreciate it will be tedious but you only need to do it once and everyone benefits.

And sometimes, doing something that doesn't require too much thought is good for a change

Thanks Steve. You're a good chap!
