Recent content by marty1452

If I understand your solution, I think you should design a simple screen that shows "Back Up In Progress". Have your back up script call this at the appropriate time. Then you could write a lock and then an unlock script for the side bar. Select in the script: Toggle Status Area[hide,lock]...

Email your file to me if possible and I'll start it for you. mlisonbee@charter.net Marty

I was concerned about your comment regarding no primary key in the purchase database. You always need a primary key, always. This is system assigned and not user editable. You may have a secondary key to connect a purchase item to a certain invoice. Let me know if you are still experiencing...

This can be done on a new layout. Each of your buttons will have it's own script. The script opens a dialog allowing the current user to input their login credentials. These credentials are compared to the authorized list and the script pass or fails the login. You don't really need 3 buttons...

One way to do this is to have the program go to a login screen. The user has to enter a valid login name to pass this screen. The active user name is copied to a global field. Each record can contain a history log. Any changes made to that record can be recorded is a diary type of log. For...

This is all possible with scripts. You could click on the player, a script writes their name to a name field, then push the graphic button in the shot zones which copies the shot location to a shot field, then, pressing the hit or miss button which is scripted to locate the players record...

The left side on your browse screen has a rolodex type of icon. This indicates a change from one "record" in the database to another. If you had a client name field for example, you could click on this icon and visually see one name, which is one record, and then the next and so on...

Sorry, I'm not likely the man for the job here. I don't have 5.5. I can't hardly believe in 5.0 I was able to have live portals and 5.5 does not. I have a solution in 5.0 with portals and I can type in them if I want. This is of course a related database and to have the database be related...

You mentioned formated for copying to another application. Have you tried formating this in a calculation field? The calculation adds all of the text together, formated how you want it to look, then you are only copying the one field. Regarding the other issues, to be sure you are copying the...

Filemaker is not as prone to data structure errors as is Access. Filemaker does track the user count and licenses for the software. Can this problem be duplicated intentionally? i.e. One user is in the program, the problem user enters, gets the error, enters again gets the error, etc. or is it...

Yes this is possible. Scripting and graphics are going to be required. How do you picture your screen layout? Can you hand draw this and fax it to me at 435-635-6914? Or post more details on the operation as you see it. Marty

I don't understand what adding records in portals has to do with scripting. What are you trying to do? I moved from 5.0 to 6.0. The scripting is the same. Maybe a few more choices but I guess you could call it clunky. I find them predictible and easy to create. I ungraded to the developer...

Radio buttons will always only allow one selection. A check box will allow multiple options. Think of it this way. A radio button is one field in a database. If you could check off multiple fields, what would the answer in the field look like? A radio button is one field in the database designed...

Do you still need help on this? Each record is primary to, the person checking out a book? The book being checked out? or the event of the book(s) being checked out? It would seem the person would be the right answer. How many databases are working with? Are you creating a relational...

I don't understand "and I now need to move down Field #2 based on the contents of Field #1". Are you trying to move from record tp record based on the field 2 content? Marty