Re: PORTALS IN FILEMAKER
Re: PORTALS IN FILEMAKER
- Subject: Re: PORTALS IN FILEMAKER
- From: kim <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:31:16 +1000
G'day Sumith Meegama
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First time user. Does anyone know how to retrieve information
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from a portal in FileMaker and import into QuarkXpress 4.11?
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If you could give a sample syntax would be much appreciated.
This should present no more problem than retrieving information from any
FMP file. Remember the portal is just a convenient way to view the
related records so you just need to do the AS bit on the related file.
The only catch is that you need to ensure that only the related records
you require are shown.
I don't have time to go into it right now (i'm at work) but the best way
I'd see would be to set the key field from your primary file to a
variable, use that variable to search the child file (which leaves you
with only the related records you need) and then set the field from the
related file to a new variable and use this to take the data to Quark.
If you need help I'm happy to do so but I'm real busy for a couple of
days.
cheers
kim