Re: fileMaker Value Lists
Re: fileMaker Value Lists
- Subject: Re: fileMaker Value Lists
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:00:43 -0700
> Original Post:
>
>>> Is it possible to load a Filemaker 8.5 value list
> into
>>> a variable?
>>> The value list is created dynamically from the
> items
>>> in the current database for the field in question.
>>> The database records change from project to
> project,
>>> so I can't easily specify the list in a "hard
> wired"
>>> fashion.
>>>
>>> Such as
>>>
> {"summer","Fall","winter","spring","holiday","special"}
>>>
>>> show (every record whose cell "Caption" contains
>>> "spring")
>
> "Bruce Robertson" wrote:
>
>
>> Though applescript is useful for some things I don't
> see why it is necessary for what you are trying to do.
> This seems like just standard FileMaker scripting.
>
>
> "Gary (Lists)" Wrote
>
>
> Totally agreed, Bruce.
>
> And this may be one of the (recent spate of)
> ill-formed questions which only serve to confuse both
> asker and potential answerer alike.
>
> It's really most helpful that people say what they are
> trying to accomplish, more specifically, rather than
> just include some small bit of pseudo-code.
>
> Working with Value Lists in FM can be done with AS,
> but how that happens (i.e., the way in which those are
> established in FM) is a matter of specifics.
>
> I don't ready anything in Oakley's post that suggests
> an extra-FM need...but I think it must be a matter of
> my not really "getting" the goal.
>
> Blah. 'nuf from me.
>
> --
> Gary
>
> Oakley now writes
> OK Gentlemen In a attempt to ask what I thought to
> be a simple question I did not provide enough
> information.
> Please, let me try again.
>
> I have a Filemaker database that contains Items in a
> catalog listed by SpreadName and ItemNumber.
> The item list and spread names are not in order.
> There are 8 to 10 items per spread.
>
> I also have a folder of Excel files for each item with
> the name of each file being the ItemNumber.
1. Sorry I still cannot understand your explanation.
2. Why have ANY spreadsheets? You've got a database.
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