Re: FM 8 layout references w/applescript - works in one file, fails in five other identical files!
Re: FM 8 layout references w/applescript - works in one file, fails in five other identical files!
- Subject: Re: FM 8 layout references w/applescript - works in one file, fails in five other identical files!
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:02:46 -0700
> Hi Peter, thanks again.
>
> These databases have been created from scratch in FM 8 but
> constructed as close as possible to the original FM 6 solution they
> replace.
>
> I consolidated some of the tables that were previously in separate
> files, cleaned up the relationship model, changed the security model
> (there wasn't one before), and created a new interface. The
> applescripts were simply the last of the legacy stuff that I had to
> change.
>
> It seems so far that none of the experts I have talked to on this
> list or elsewhere have any idea why this problem I am having exists,
> so I must chalk it up to a FileMaker bug or simple file corruption.
> The files are live and get a lot of use however, so I will only stop
> them on the server and check them for corruption as a last resort at
> this stage. I still have a couple of leads I am trying to eliminate
> as possible sources for the error first.
>
> The fact that the "Get(LayoutName)" function fails to return anything
> for any layout in any file I find the most disturbing. I have a
> calculation field that calls that function and returns the result as
> text. I don't see how that could fail.
Is the calculation unstored? Does it have a text result?
How EXACTLY does this work? I just don't experience a problem with it.
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