Thanks Thomas / Bob for the Advice!
Here's what I did to solve the problem. Created a regular number field,
"GroupCount" in the setup file (since it only has one record) "GroupCount"
and then just referenced that field in my previous script.
Andrea Barnhart
Reliacom CSD
www.reliacom.org
(202) 797-9735 x351
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Mokwa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:49 AM
To: Andrea Barnhart; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SUPPORT] global field question
A thing to remember is that globals are only global locally! In a
network environment each user has their own globals. What I think you
need is a regular field in a file that has only one record. This way
the field could be accessed by any user and increased for all users
and retained on restart.
I hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me if I wasn't clear.
Regards,
Thomas
>Hello all those Filemaker experts out there,
>
>I have a problem that I hope you can help me solve. The basic requirement
is
>to link certain name records by a group id. I have created a global field
>"gGroupCount" and a number field "GroupID" I then have a script which
>creates a groupid by
> 1) Set Field ["gGroupCount","gGroupCount +1"]
>2) Set Field ["GroupID","gGroupCount"]
>
>This script works perfectly on a stand-alone version of Filemaker. (keeping
>track of the current group id and then adding 1 to create the next id).
>However when running on Filemaker server, whenever Ebase is closed and
>restarted, the global gGroupCount is reset; therefore not storing the
>previous group id.
>
>What is the correct way for storing a global variable across Server? Or is
>there a better way to create a unique number "on the fly"?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>
>Andrea Barnhart
>Reliacom CSD
>www.reliacom.org
>(202) 797-9735 x351
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