I'll expand a bit on yswt's third suggestion (copied below).

We use nested folders quite a bit for certain categories of data.

The good news: this nicely supports the original request. What you get once
setup:

* A column that contains the data for whatever set of folders you want (in your
case, a
list of other folders related to this record). Only values with data in them are
shown. [We
use this to provide a column showing all phone numbers, relationships, financial
info,
survey responses, etc etc]

* Easy editing (click on the "cell" and up pops a mini-form allowing you to
check/uncheck
the other folders or fill in other folder info as you see fit)

The bad news: in a multiuser system, you must set this up for each user's local
file. The
setup is stored in each Ecco file, not in the shared database. To set up:

* Open the folder view (arrow at bottom-left of the Ecco screen; many don't know
about
this!)
* Create a (checkmark) folder to be the column placeholder (e.g. "Folders" for
you?)
* Drag the other folders underneath the placeholder folder
* Drag the placeholder into your notepad column view

Now set it up to show the subfolders:
* Right click on the placeholder folder header (its name) in your notepad view
* Select 'properties...'
* Click on the 'Sub Folders of "<name>" that contain item' radio button and
accept

Hope that helps!
pete

On 22 Jun 2009 yoursowelcomethanks said...

>3. you can make in folder view, some folders as children of another. Then,
>if show parent folder in column and select properties you can show all
children
>instead of parent value. There is a tutorial on this somewhere in EM forums,
>hopefully this is clear enough to get you started.

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