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Setting cells in Filemaker
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Setting cells in Filemaker


  • Subject: Setting cells in Filemaker
  • From: Matthew Broms <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:58:18 -0400

I9m having trouble setting a just the group of cells in a specific layout in
Filemaker Pro. I9ve tried multiple variations of the following:

Go to layout 3recap_input2 of window 3myDB.fp52
Create new record of layout 3recap_input2 with data {2x2, 3y2, 3z2}

When I try to do this, it9s as if Filemaker ignores the layout I specified
and just starts populating cells in the order which they were defined when
creating the database. So if the fields of a layout I specified to populate
only have the 4th, 5th, and 6th cells I defined, these will be left blank
and cells 1, 2, & 3 will get the respective data.

The only way I have figured out to set just the cells of a particular layout
is to explicitly state each cell, such as: set {cell 3xyz2 of record 1,
cell 3abc2 of record 1} to {2Hello2, 3World2}. This seems laborious and
inefficient, especially if I were to have a DB with 100 fields per record
and my target layout has a mixture of 50 of them. Does anyone know a
quick/simple way to do this - to properly direct Applescript to tell
Filemaker to do this by using ONLY the cells of a specified layout?

Thanks,

Matt


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