6/16/17 Notes (Still trying to fix the name search command)

Still trying to fix problems with the number of names appear and case sensitivity

  • Tried deleting the command that eliminated case sensitivity and edited the search command so that I was searching through the “First Name” column. Then, I searched “Ella,” to see if I could get her name to appear (her name should be in the file because she’s in the attendance file). This did not work.
  • Tried putting the case sensitivity command earlier in the code so that it’s before the creation of the “Full Name” column to see if this enables all the names to appear. This did not work.
  • I’m going to try a different type of merge that will information that only appears on one file will still appear on the merged file when searched.
    • I read up on the different types of merges and right now I’m using a left merge which keeps all the information in the file that’s the “left” file. I think this is the correct merging format, but I need to edit the code so that the Attendance file is the left merge. Then, all the information on the attendance file will be saved.This did not work.
  • In the code now I merge attendance to all the survey files last, I’m wondering if I merge the Attendance file to a survey file first, then add all the survey files onto that if the Attendance information that does not appear on the other files will be saved (I will do this next week though because I’m maxed out on hours).

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