Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helpful Harry Newsgroups: comp.databases.filemaker Subject: Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:43:53 +1300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 26 Message-ID: <171120131243531912%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> References: <1lc5yrc.rmt30810crvj2N%csampson@inetworld.net> <0fa27c27-d6b7-477b-9104-15fb90b2c124@googlegroups.com> <1lc9olh.fh6kuzk00mfN%csampson@inetworld.net> <4f6960ba-9ead-4d3d-9955-6f3fc3a10f43@googlegroups.com> <1lcehod.iygd7qx1864bN%csampson@inetworld.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: Si1FQrZvsTSn+LXQ7+rhIg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.4 (Carbon/OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.filemaker:1515 In article , Howard Schlossberg 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)