Displaying A Task Record's Child Records

Every Task record is capable of being linked to an unlimited number of Subtask, Work Session, Note, and Data File Link (linked computer files) records.

The Task record shown in this image is linked to 35 Subtasks, 203 Work Sessions, 205 Notes, and 505 computer files.

The database records linked to a Task record are referred to as its "child records", and sometimes as its "owned" records.

This image shows the hyperlinks that display lists of child record for a Task record.

If you're working with a Task record in an "Index" window then you'll need to select the Task record first, before you can click on any of the Display... hyperlinks that will show you a list of that task's child records.

To select a record, just single click on it.

If you have a Task record open in the Task Window, you can just click on any of the Display... hyperlinks that will display that task's child records.

When you click a hyperlink such as the Display Data Link Files hyperlink, you'll see an "Index" type window displayed, and inside that window will be a list of all of the child records, of that type, that belong to the task.

Every 'index' type window, like the one shown in this image has a Search panel that you use a keyword search with to find specific records in the currently displayed list.

For example, the search shown in the image below, will search for any files, created on a Tuesday in November of any year, and display them.

To do the search, just enter your search words into the Search field and then click on the Search hyperlink.

The window will display your matching records.

Because the Task's Data Files Index window (this image) works with linked computer files, when you double click on any record entry in the list, that entry's linked computer file is going to get loaded and displayed.

Note: If this window was any of the 'index' windows used to display a task's subtasks, work sessions, or note records instead, then double clicking on a record entry in the window would have opened that record in a new 'editing' window.

The software that loads and displays it will be the software that your computer uses to work with that kind of file.

In the image below, the Windows Photo Viewer was the software that loaded and displayed the linked image file.