At 12:40 PM -0500 12/8/00, Chris Kempton wrote:
>Dave or others,
>
>Carl Paulsen here, helping some folks in S. Carolina.
Carl, good to talk with you. This followup just to let the list
watchers know you got what you needed, and so they can share in the
solution
>Working with this database, I tried entering a payment for a names
>record and found that the Names data was not relating properly to
>the payment record. There was no name in the Name line for the
>payment record, and the names record shows no payment record
>associated with it.
>
>Also, FMP brings up a dialog box saying:
>
>"Record number is defined to require a value, but it is not
>available on this layout. Use another layout to assign a value to
>this field."
>
>The Record Number field (from Names) is on the Payment Entry layout,
>but record number doesn't seem to be entered when the payment record
>is created.
>
>Any idea what's wrong here? Is it a relationship problem?
>Solutions....???? HELP!
As we discovered, the clipboard file was missing, damaged, misplaced
or renamed in the process of converting the files from FMP 4 to 5.
The script in the names file copied the record number to a clipboard
file somewhere other than the ebase directory. When the script in the
payments file (or actions) created a new record, it didn't have a
clipboard file to get the record number from.
cheers,
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Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
