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Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set

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From Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com>
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Subject Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set
Date Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:43:53 +1300
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In article <l68ttp$8e3$1@news.motzarella.org>, Howard Schlossberg
<howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:

> On 11/16/2013 12:01 AM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
> >>                But why even bother with a calc field when you are using a
> >> >script anyhow to arrive at the layout you want to use? Why not add a small
> >> >routine in that script to go to all records in a new, hidden window, grab
> >> >the total, plug it into a global field or variable, and then display it on
> >> >your UI layout?
> >       And what happens when one of the fields that this value depends on
> > is changed? According to the Pogue book, FileMaker Pro 8 is very limited
> > in the actions that you can attach a script to and committing a record
> > is not one of them. If I have to program every action in the database
> > using scripts, I can do that but I'll be very disappointed that
> > FileMaker doesn't take some of the burden from me.
> 
> It's been many years since I've fired up FileMaker 8, but I'm pretty 
> sure they had script triggers in 8 and, if so, then OnCommit was 
> certainly one of them from the start.

I think you're wasting your time. Charles simply wants to whine about
how "bad" FileMaker is, rather than using the answers to his question
that we give him. I certainly won't be bothering to try to answer any
more of them.

Helpful Harry  :o)

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Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-11 09:16 -0800
  Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Howard - FM Pro Solutions <fmprosolutions@gmail.com> - 2013-11-11 09:33 -0800
    Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-13 09:47 -0800
      Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Erik Appeldoorn <ursus.kirk@gmail.com> - 2013-11-13 19:29 +0100
        Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-16 00:01 -0800
          Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set "E. Appeldoorn" <ursus.kirk@ziggo.nl> - 2013-11-16 10:24 +0100
            Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-18 10:14 -0800
              Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-11-19 08:42 +1300
                Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-19 09:20 -0800
                Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-11-20 09:08 +1300
      Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-11-14 09:19 +1300
        Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-16 00:01 -0800
      Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Howard - FM Pro Solutions <fmprosolutions@gmail.com> - 2013-11-13 12:41 -0800
        Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-11-14 18:57 +1300
        Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-16 00:01 -0800
          Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2013-11-16 15:08 -0800
            Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-11-17 12:43 +1300
              Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-18 06:58 -0800
            Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-18 10:02 -0800
              Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-20 07:00 -0800
                Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Howard - FM Pro Solutions <fmprosolutions@gmail.com> - 2013-11-20 09:44 -0800
                Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-11-21 09:04 +1300
                Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Howard - FM Pro Solutions <fmprosolutions@gmail.com> - 2013-11-20 12:55 -0800
                Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2013-11-21 16:59 +0100
                Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-11-22 09:22 +1300
  Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2013-11-11 19:38 +0100
  Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2013-11-20 23:00 -0800

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