Re: AS/FMP: a list of fewer than two records
Re: AS/FMP: a list of fewer than two records
- Subject: Re: AS/FMP: a list of fewer than two records
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:37:46 -0500
Gary Lists wrote [2/28/04 2:09 AM]:
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Chap Harrison wrote [2/27/04 5:03 PM]:
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> Gary Lists has suggested several times that FMP doesn't do the 'whose'
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> clause very well, and recommends invoking filemaker scripts to do these
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> finds. I'd like that to be an absolute last resort (I have enough
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> trouble finding where I left my glasses). Do other people feel that
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> FMP's 'whose' clause is utterly broken and no good for anything? Or
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> are there specific limits within which it can be trusted?
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As for your search, which is the same kind of search you will be doing many
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times over the life of your data file, why NOT fix the search into FM? It
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takes one or two lines of FM script, the script can be called from any other
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FM script, and it can be called from AppleScript.
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I think "absolute last resort" is cutting off your nose to spite your face, as
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my granny says. [Especially since you're not having much luck any other way!
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;)
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--
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Gary
Chap, I just received this via email, on a wholly other subject, and though
it related to this topic, and especially to your 'last resort' stance.
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FileMaker Pro, unlike many other environments, provides all three layers
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in one package. Sometimes developers have sought a different approach.
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FileMaker Pro can serve as a front end to itself or to other data
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sources. This is an emerging trend, and one likely to accelerate. Of
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special interest are calculation fields that provide, in essence, stored
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query results and ScriptMaker. scripts that can restore the query logic.
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The leading authority on The Separation Model (TSM) as it is called is
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FileMaker Solutions Alliance Partner Member Colleen Hammersley of
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Data-Waves. She has made several major presentations on this topic at
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Developer Conferences.
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Steven H. Blackwell, FM 'guru' on [2/28/04 11:30 AM]
Just some more info for us both...all.
Best,
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Gary
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