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<blockquote data-quote="Magus Coeruleus" data-source="post: 737048" data-attributes="member: 1704">Wow, Sigil, that's great.&nbsp; Are you doing this in Access?&nbsp; I don't have much time available, but if I can help a bit I'd like to.&nbsp; Unfortunately I have no experience building or even using databases with Access, although I'm fairly adept with Excel.&nbsp; If you already have the fields set up in the db, would it be possible for you to send that to me and for me to add more spells to help simply by entering the appropriate values into the fields for each one?&nbsp; Also, how flexible are you making it for search/query purposes?&nbsp; Here's an example of my concern with the Excel spell spreadsheets I've seen--there is one column for Components, which looks just like the line out of the PHB/SRD, i.e. letters for all relevant components, separated by commas, all in the same field.&nbsp; Like I said, I don't know how Access works, but I wonder whether that makes it more difficult to query or filter based on components than if you have binary fields for each type of components (S, V, M, F, DF, etc).&nbsp; Same goes for descriptors like Cold, Evil, Mind-Affecting, etc.Please keep me posted if it's not too much trouble!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Magus Coeruleus, post: 737048, member: 1704"] Wow, Sigil, that's great. Are you doing this in Access? I don't have much time available, but if I can help a bit I'd like to. Unfortunately I have no experience building or even using databases with Access, although I'm fairly adept with Excel. If you already have the fields set up in the db, would it be possible for you to send that to me and for me to add more spells to help simply by entering the appropriate values into the fields for each one? Also, how flexible are you making it for search/query purposes? Here's an example of my concern with the Excel spell spreadsheets I've seen--there is one column for Components, which looks just like the line out of the PHB/SRD, i.e. letters for all relevant components, separated by commas, all in the same field. Like I said, I don't know how Access works, but I wonder whether that makes it more difficult to query or filter based on components than if you have binary fields for each type of components (S, V, M, F, DF, etc). Same goes for descriptors like Cold, Evil, Mind-Affecting, etc. Please keep me posted if it's not too much trouble! [/QUOTE]

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