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--- "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." --- Melvin Conway On Sep 10, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Dan Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > It's hard to believe others have not experienced this problem and knows a > quick fix or why it happens, all the time for me > > Best Regards, > Dan Kelly > Yachtlink Engineering Inc. > 1 954 663 1630 > > -----Original Message----- > From: FileMaker Pro Discussions [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of BEVERLY VOTH > Sent: September 03, 2012 13:09 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Moving tables > > Dan, You can "repoint" an occurrence on the Relationship Graph. Do so, by > double clicking the image on the graph. Keep in mind that other things may > or may not work after doing that... :) > > Beverly > > On 03 Sep 2012, at 12:51 PM, Dan Kelly wrote: > >> I have a maintenance database file with many tables, some of them >> tables have a relationship to another file which is also another type >> of maintenance, I imported the table into the file with multiple >> occurrences, after which when I go to the field definitions and view >> one of the fields that have a lookup, that lookup has been lost, when >> I try to reset it and choose the starting table I only get the earlier >> references that were in the file, I do not get the table I just >> imported, which is the table I am editing, I've run into this at time >> and can't recall if I figured out why or want I did wrong, but >> deleting the prior relationships will allow the new table to show as a >> starting table, then I can recreate the old relationship, FMP 11 >> Advanced >> >> Best Regards, >> Dan Kelly >> Yachtlink Engineering Inc. >> 1 954 663 1630 >> >> From: FileMaker Pro Discussions >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard S. >> Russell >> Sent: September 03, 2012 12:17 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Moving tables >> >> >> On 2012 Sep 3, at 9:52, Dan Kelly wrote: >> >> >> When I migrate a table from one file to another the default tables >> occurrence changes and the lookups change it there is already a >> relationship to that table with the new current file, when I go to >> reset the lookups then the current table which I had imported is not >> one of the options for default, can anyone tell me the best way to >> prevent this error when doing this? >> >> >> A request to Dan - and anybody in the future who asks a question - is to > please mention which version of FileMaker Pro you're using, whether it's > regular FMP or FMP Advanced, and what platform (Mac or Windows) you're > operating on. The answers to your questions may differ depending on the > context. >> >> Also, in order to aid in communication, it helps if you can be as specific > as possible. For example, not merely "I'm trying to migrate a table from one > file to another" but rather "I'm trying to import the 'Addresses' table from > the 'Programs' file to the 'Members' file." This too enables the response to > be in terms most likely to be useful to you. >
