Re: FMP question -- for Shane Stanley?
Re: FMP question -- for Shane Stanley?
- Subject: Re: FMP question -- for Shane Stanley?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:18:04 +1100
On 1/11/00 7:04 PM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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Just for the exercise, I've done it all ("it" being importing
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tab-delimited text files into an FMP database) in AS. It stays in the
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background, as you said it would, but importing 2 text files with a total of
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10 records (lines) to be entered into 7 fields (a few others are calculated
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by FMP, which seems to take no time at all), then checking for duplicates,
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takes about 15-20 seconds vs. about 1 sec running the FileMaker script and
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flashing to the front.
How long it takes will depend very much on how you script the import, and
the fastest method is not necessarily obvious. Post the relevant part of
your script.
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I can't find a way to get or set field labels in AS, BTW. Suppose you were
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making a new database, or adding a field, in AS. Don't you need to set the
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field labels somehow?
Unfortunately, you can't do that sort of thing in AS.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden