Roger Terminology:
You 'create' a field when you add it to a table. The field remains there unless you delete it from the table.
Once the field exists -- ie once you have created it and it is present in the table -- you can add it to (place it on) any layout (or not as the case may be; often times you may want a field that is always hidden but that you use in calculations, scripts and so on). Given that this is how it works, you can obviously remove a field from a layout any time you like -- but you won't be 'deleting' the field from the table. Think of a layout as simply a 'view' of a particular table. You can show on a layout any or all of the fields in that table, adding them and removing them at will.
I think that adding a newly created field automatically to the current layout may be a preference. If it is, I always turn it off 'cos I always place fields manually. More control. Even if you do set the preference, I'm not sure this automatic addition always works -- I think you will have to be on a layout for which the context is the table to which you are adding the field.
Also, I would advise that you stop thinking of a layout as a 'page'... That is going to lead you to more confusion in future. A layout is a display of data from a table (or related tables). It may be one page long or multiple pages long or a fraction of a page long (depending on your printer and page setup as well as how large you make the layout). Think of a layout as a screen or view, but not as a page!
Steve On 13 Sep 2008, at 11:17, rogeradams wrote:
My bad. You are quite right. The FTS manual did not specify that you had to create the fields again on the layout from the status bar which caused me some confusion. In the past, when I have created fields in the define database field creation dialog box, they have appeared in the database layout page where I could position them wherever I wanted so I expected the same when I created these two fields.
