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From: Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.filemaker
Subject: Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:08:06 +1300
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In article <1lcksfq.1xacu5019ktti0N%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> wrote:
> > In article <1lcizy0.vpv54s159q3kfN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
> > Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> > > E. Appeldoorn <ursus.kirk@ziggo.nl> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Also may I humbly suggest to stop comparing Filemaker to anything you
> > > > have previously learned. If I was to learn something new after all those
> > > > years of using filemaker I would also struggle. But resisting by 
> > > > shouting that the new program makes no sense would get me nowhere.
> > > 
> > >      Point taken and I think I've given a wrong impression by bringing
> > > up my current database program. I only mentioned it to point out that,
> > > as old and clunky as it is (it ran on a Mac Plus after all), it did what
> > > the user told it to do 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > FileMaker does what you tell it to ... the problem is you don't know
> > what you're doing and would rather complain about FileMaker than learn
> > to use it. When people try to give you the answer you say it's silly.
> 
>     O man with the most inappropriate ID ever, let's try this again. I
> tell FileMaker, "I want this field's value to be given by this formula."
> FileMaker says, "I might do that or I might not." I don't see how that
> can be interpreted as "FileMaker does what you tell it to."

Because you weren't telling FileMaker to do it correctly. 

FileMaker does not and cannot just do things randomly by itself - it
only ever does what you tell it to, and since you didn't know what you
were doing, you obviously got the formula wrong and/or set it up
incorrectly ... and whining on about FileMaker being silly, even when
you've been given the correct way, just proves you're an idiot who
isn't really interested in learning or being helped.

Next time ask a sensible question, without whining, and perhaps with
more detail of what you're trying to do.

Helpful Harry  :o)