Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Creating a tab delimited file with TaskCentre









GOAL: On a monthly basis, create a membership roster containing the mailing address in a tab delimited format.

Task contains the following tools (screenshoot above):
  1. Event, Schedule
  2. Input, Database Query
  3. Format, Format As Text
  4. Output, Save As File

The technique that I wanted to share is how to insert the Tab character into a text document. After some trial and error I found that the following worked for me in the Detail section of the Format As Text object:


{=ThisStep.RecordSource("ID")}{=vbTab}{=ThisStep.RecordSource("prefix")}{=vbTab}...

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