<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 29, 2006, at 12:18 PM, The Editor wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">When I return early next week I'll send you some more info on using</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">FAST Data.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm using it on my site for full membership management,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">and with the new revisions coming it will have even more flexible</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">capabilities.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm sure you won't be disappointed.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">With the next revision it will not only have mailing list capabilities</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">(it can do that now) it will allow you to create a complete mail merge</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">based on their individual member profiles.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You can store any member</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">info you want and use it anywhere anyway you want.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The main change</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">I'm making is adding a much more flexible list management system to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">FAST Data to make organizing and editing lists very easy.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Whether for</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">use in a file management system, or multiple email lists.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Cheers,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Caveman</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">As for Member management--I'm wondering if you had something specific</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">in mind that FAST Data can't do?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Pm, what were you thinking?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One problem I have with FASTData is that you're not storing values in a method compatible with PmWiki's page variables on the Data- pages.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Why are they:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Variable = "value"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>instead of</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Variable: value</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>or other means by which PmWiki stores page variables -- invisible or visible.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Can this be changed to be compatible with core PmWiki variables? I can see how doing this would help the core AND FASTData interchange working with exactly the same data.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>