Will, Lee, Richard, Geoff, Stephen.... Thank you all for your information! I was so sure that I had to transfer it to FM7 and then up. Since not, now I just need to put FMAdvanced for 2-3 users in my budget and move forward. (btw, does that ever go on sale? [doubtful])
Thank you again! Jackie on 1/6/10 10:28 AM, Geoff Graham at [email protected] wrote: > On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Stephen Wonfor wrote: > >> > Hi Jackie >> > >> > Will and Geoff make good points. Here's a different take on it. >> > ... >> > (Adding Refresh Window Steps that convert to Select Window and Exit >> > Record steps where you need a Commit after a cluster of SetFields) > > I did forget that the Commit Record script step often has to be > sprinkled liberally into converted scripts; the 3rd major gotcha of > fp5 - fp7 script conversion. It's the new window model, Jackie, that > allows multiple windows to have multiple "current" records. FileMaker > 6 and before only allowed one current record in the whole application; > a set of scripts that bounced back and forth between files implicitly > committed the current record data simply by exiting the script. (mostly) > > Now these tools the pros recommend; they will help for sure. They will > also add a layer of complexity as you see everything you may or may > not have wanted to know about your database. If I'm guessing right, > you are a power user who has built or maintained their own custom > database, learning as you go. As soon as you get to a point, say, > where none of your scripts are working and you realize that you need > to add a bunch of Commit Records, and it occurs to you that it would > be swell if there was a way to spray them into all your scripts > automagically; then you are a MetaDataMagic potential customer. At > that point you will be able to decide that a dozen or two scripts will > take about an hour to update and thus MDM is not worth the $300 to > you; or alternatively, that your tangled mess of hundreds scripts is > hopeless, that MDM is a huge bargain; and you know exactly what it is > that you want it to do for you. > > Speaking of tools, I would recommend that you get the latest FM > Advanced. You really will need the script debugger to step through and > test scripts. You don't "have" to have it, in the same way you can > rebuild an old Ford engine with only a pair of channel-locks and a > screwdriver, but I wouldn't want to do it. > > Stephen ( and most of these wonderful people ) is a real pro; if > anything I have said seems to conflict, then I would go with what he > says. :) Btw, nice concise four stepper from Darren there Stephen; > that's very handy. Thanks. > > Geoff > > ps. Converting an old file, I went to the file references in FM10 to > clean those old paths to long forgotten drives, and saw a reference > from my old machine to an old external drive I had forgotten about. > Aha! That's where that project I worked on years ago is hiding. Now I > just need to remember where that old drive is...
