Hi Chuck

Glad you sorted out the Case question.

> Another interesting situation.
> 
> I have several tables.
> 
> I want to transfer data from one table into another using ScriptMaker.

"Transfer" is not really a Filemaker word. What do you mean exactly? Import?
Use Set Field?
 
> As part of the process, I want to know when a particular field in the
> one table has changed value. [Note: We're going from a flat-file (FF)
> table to a relational series of tables.]

You mean you are going to move data from one table to the other
conditionally, depending on the value in this field?
 
> So, I sort the FF table based on that field.

OK...
 
> However, on the relational side, when I access the first record in
> the sorted FF table and stuff data from it into the relational table,
> it's not giving me the data from the sorted FF table. It's giving me
> the data from the unsorted first record of the FF table.


Hmmm... There are a few terms there that I'm not getting! Are you suggesting
you have a relationship between another table and the one you call the FF
table? What are the relational keys for this relationship?

And again 'stuff' is not a Filemaker function. Are you using Set Field? Or
something else?

> How does one access the sorted records of a table from a different
> table?

Sort order doesn't really matter to a relationship. The sort order of the
relationship itself does, though, if you are trying to Set Field from the
one side to the many side of a relationship.

But... Really this is just shooting in the dark. If you post your script and
perhaps explain any relationships involved, it would be much easier to
understand your problem.

Steve

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