[WL-USERS] Combining Logs

[Jerry Pixton]

Dana,

I have been using WriteLog's ability to produce an Excel spreadsheet for
each contest or general dx qso. Then from Microsoft Access I import the
spreadsheet. Then I build  an append query to map the fields I want over
into my master "Contacts" table. This has been working out fine for each
contest. I am saving the append queries under the assumption that when I
get to that same contest a year later the query will still be valid. It
only takes a few minutes to accomplish after each contest and you have the
excel spread sheet to do any analysis you want.

The only difficulty I have encountered seems to be a limit on Access not
importing more than 32 fields so I have had to delete some Excel columns at
times. Don't understand this limit yet.

Jerry, W6IHG

At 09:27 AM 3/26/99 PST, you wrote:
>I am embarrassed to admit that I have tried some very strange kluges to get
>into one file... tried writing an Access database to import to, but it's
taking
> forever & I don't have much time to work on it... finally tried using the
>shareware XMLog... it takes the import file OK (at least it seems to) and
does
>the basic tracking functions, but you are pretty limited in what you can do
>with it
>
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>From: "Michael C. Joens" <joens@thecia.net>, on 3/25/99 7:52 PM:
>
>I would like to combine the various contest logs into one for DXCC tracking 
>purposes. After several contests the information becomes a bit unwieldy to 
>handle in separate logs. I looked through the help screens, but couldn't 
>find any way to merge several logs into one.
>
>I tried to export each log into the ADIF format and then importing it into 
>LOG-EQF, which I use for non-contest logging. However, the resulting file 
>does not track the countries correctly, which may be a problem with how the 
>ADIF file is imported into LOG-EQF. At any rate, that approach did not 
>work.
>
>If I could at least combine all the .WL files into one, that would be a 
>great step forward. I'm sure it can be done, I just can't figure out how.
>
>73,
>Michael
>
>
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