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Is it possible to create a script that would copy text from a web viewer? What I am trying to do is fill in the missing zip code for certain records. In a record that has an address, city and state, once I click on a layout with the web viewer (connected to mapquest or google maps) the map shows...

I currently have a database that contains around 11 million records. If there is a power failure or if filemaker is shut down manually without closing the files, the large database is always damaged when I try and reopen it. Is there anyway for me to avoid this aside from creating backup copies...

When a new cpu was up and running, the moment I plugged in the ethernet cable I could see and access the folders of the new cpu from any other computer on the network. I was able to add the network printers and had no problems. However, someone ran the network wizard to add the new cpu into the...

What I am trying to do is delete the suite number of an address. However, not all addresses have suite numbers and I haven't figured out a way for the calculation to identify which records to edit and not edit. Each record that has a suite number has a "#" symbol after the address and before the...

Is there a way to create a script in filemaker that will run and command a program that exists on my hard drive? I basically have a mapping program (businessMAP) and would like filemaker to access it and be able to paste selected fields (address, city, etc) and then find the specified...

How can I create a script that will automatically paste info into the next available/blank repeating field in Fm Pro 8? If I have a repeating field with 10 repetitions and the first 4 are filled in, how can I make sure that the paste will go into the 5th repetition and so on? Are there any new...

Does FM Pro 8 have an actual current date field that uses my computers clock. I know that there is the "Date Symbol" that shows the date accordingly but I cannot use it in a calculation or can I? The Get (current date) option does not update itself, it merely inserts the current date into the...

I want to link 2 scripts together only when the first script (which is a specified find) reveals that there are no matches. Is there any other way other than adding a calculation using the "if" option? Any advice would be helpful.

Is there any way that I can restrict access to specific records in a database? I am the admin but there are specific records that my employer wants to be able to view by himself, basically giving a user of the database full access to certain records with no one else able to view them? Any...

How can I remove duplicate records from FM without deleting one of the duplicate records? I want to remove the dupes but still want the original or one of the records to not be deleted in the database. Any advice would be greatly helpful.

I am trying to create a way that allows certain parts of the text to appear in specified fields automatically. Basically, a block of text is copied and pasted into a main field. The text consists of a company name, address, city, zip & phone #. Once the block of text is pasted in the main field...

Users on our FM Pro 7 network cannot open documents that appear in portals (all documents are stored in container fields in a seperate database). I am the only one who can access these documents because they are all stored on my machine. When a remote users tries to open the document, they get a...

Is it possible to create a drop-down menu in FM that is similiar to something that appears in windows? What I want to down is create a field that contains 3 seperate value list, if option A is selected a drop-down menu would appear with specific items. If B is selected, a different set of items...

Is there a way for me to access a Mac G3 running OS 9 through my XP based PC over a network? What I basically want to do is transfer files that were stored on the G3 into my XP pc. The easiest way I can think of is just connecting the G3 to our network & copying the files over but how do I...

Is there any way to resize an image when it is placed into a container field while in browse mode? Is there such a way that when I insert a picture into a container field that the image will fill up all of the container field rather than just insert the image as is and leave the remaining area...

I am trying to add an email plug-in into our filemaker database that would be compatible with both eudora and outlook programs. I have only come across mail.it 2.5 from Dacons Int. Is there any other kind of plug-in out there that anyone could recommend or is mail.it the best one out there? Thanks.

My question is this: is it possible to have 3 remote users use the dialer script set up in a database perform the outgoing call on each of their seperate telephone lines. Or is the dialer script just attached to one telephone line, that being the computer hosting the database? Any advice would...

I have run into a problem in displaying certain fields in a portal. My main goal is to display info through a portal on database C. The info/fields displayed on the portal comes from database B. The info/fields that are on database B consists of some fields that are inputed directly into...

I have created a couple of scripts that perform find's in our different databases. However, when the script is used, there is always a pause and the user must click the continue button before the script is completed. Is there anyway to by-pass the pause, so that the find appears automatically...

I had some major spyware issues that spybot & adware could not remove, so I was forced to remove them myself. Arter doing so, everytime I start my computer, everything is working until it completely loads and at the end all I see is the blue background of ME. None of my shortcuts are on the...