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Hello all, I'm having trouble with a calculation that I need some help in (FM 9 Advanced). I have 4 fields: A date field called "subscribed date" (ex. 7/31/2008) A number field called "Pay...
I have designed a Joke Database transformed from the Recipes Starter Solution in FileMaker Pro. I have a Form View, List View, Information Layout and Joke Card layout. The Joke Card layout is ...
I have several issues with FMS 9 Web Publishing installation on W2K3. I've treid setting it up on 2 different servers. On both servers I made a web site in IIS and enabled basic authentication...
I am trying to create two major fields called beginning balance and ending balance. I have all the base components setup but when I go to do the final math calculation, it is not subtracting p...
I am very new to the FileMaker scene and am trying to help a client with it.  Can we set up 2 independent data files and then sync them periodically?  I am used to doing this with ACT and cann...
I have a client who had a power surge and FileMaker Pro was open. Now it gives all sorts of errors. After contacting FileMaker support, they said he needs to find a FileMaker Developer to look...
One of my clients is asking me to upgrade our current Filemaker 9 server license to Advanced server for the Instant Web Publishing feature.  Their objective is to publish reports to their cust...
Hi. in advanced thanks for looking into this post. i am an IT Consultant and have been working on a database where i have a list of all of my clients, technicians, issue tracker, work orde...
I want to know how to print contacts onto a 5x7 envelope.  More specifically, I want to print an address on an envelope using a Xerox Phaser 8500 printer.  You should know that my compter is a...
Hi, I need some help on an import into Filemaker 9 issue. When I import a text file into a text field (Windows), I get invalid ASCII symbols at the beginning of each text line.  It's the littl...
I was wonering if anyone knew of a trick to export records to a csv file with headers or the field names? or any other file format?  I have been making a new record and filling the names in th...
I have two Filemaker files that run through the Filemaker Server. Is there a way to open one in Kiosk mode? Or can I create a Kiosk mode database that can relate to a database that is on Filem...
Hi, I have two related tables that both can be searched. In the results table I'd like to show the found records of both tables in one single list. As far as I know, I need to have a thi...
Hello. I am trying to teach myself FileMaker programming, and have a question regarding inserting a link to an external document into a record.  I appreciate any advice and thank you all in...
I have a few calculation fields that are sum(amount) through some dynamic self-relationships. I am trying to get zero to display if there are no records through the relationship. I tried: I...
Hello: Is there a way to merge two Filemaker Pro databases?
I have a filemaker pro database thats' become corrupted. It opens in Filemaker Pro 8.5 but not in 9. I've been able to export all the records to a new database, but there are around 50 dif...
i am trying to omit duplicates. I setup this script but its omitting one of the items completly. i need to use this script all the time so i can transfer the records that i need to excel. sor...
I have a FileMaker 8.5 database with 16 tables and a crazy relationship diagram. Some tables have multiple table occurrences on the diagram, and I am almost certain that over the development p...
I started hiding some databases but theya re still shared and they open fine when they are referenced with a script but how do I open them up manually?  Or if I have a script that I am adding ...
I am trying to setup our FM Server 9 to do a daily backup of all of our databases to a NAS.  I have mapped a drive as the Z drive to the backup folder on the NAS.  When I put in the Backup Fol...
Dear all, I have a fp7 file which is maintained by our databse entry person who is using file maker pro 8. The file contains images insterted into to it. It appears that the images folder ...
I have a filemaker pro database with 330,000 records.  What I would like to be able to do, is have a script that finds the records for each state and automatically writes them to a csv file wi...
We are working with a new server with Small Business Server. All programs are running fine on the old server, so we just reinstalled and copied all programs, including filemaker and the databa...
Hi All - I have a database used to house Account information with a layout that has been created to serve as a company produced letter that goes out to customers.  The layout was created from ...