Re: Filemaker 8.5 and current record syntax
Re: Filemaker 8.5 and current record syntax
- Subject: Re: Filemaker 8.5 and current record syntax
- From: Dan Doughtie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:15:15 -0400
- Thread-topic: Filemaker 8.5 and current record syntax
Title: Re: Filemaker 8.5 and current record syntax
I see your point. After struggling with this for two days I was able to use “current record of current layout” in place of the usual “current record”. But if it included within a Tell Table statement it fails. I remember reading in another thread something about a layout not having any objects to “Tell” against.
Thanks,
Dan
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From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:17:33 -0400
To: "Doughtie, Dan" <email@hidden>, applescript-users <email@hidden>
Conversation: Filemaker 8.5 and current record syntax
Subject: Re: Filemaker 8.5 and current record syntax
> Referring to a "current record" was never a problem for me before. But now
> in 8.5 I can't find any anything that will reference it. I have tried"
>
> set MyCellInfo to a reference to current record of table "MyTable"
>
> Then try and set a variable against the reference. The reference accepts the
> Current Record but can't do anything with it.
There is no such thing as a current record (or found set or sort order) for
a table.
There is a current record - and a found set - and sort order - of a
particular layout of a particular window.
A table has no interface, it is always the complete set of data contained by
the defined table. A table is a property of a database.
Though there is a current record for a window, this is really the current
record of the current layout. In actuality there can be as many current
records for a window as there are layouts, because each layout can represent
a connection to a different table occurrence.
You can in fact use applescript to "talk" to tables but you must use some
other kind of selection criteria such as recordID or property of a field to
identify the record.
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