[FX.php List] Global field works on one table but not another?

[Jon Montgomery]

Dale, Joel and Dan,
    Thank you for the quick response.

Dale - after I read your response, I remembered reading that somewhere but
at the time it did not apply to anything I was doing.  So it did not remain
in memory.  That was the problem.

Joel and Dan - I choose not to go the script way.  And my mind was already
numb.  This global has not changed in 5 years so editing it is not a problem
once you guys pointed out the problem.

You all have fun at DEVCON.

Jon Montgomery
Illinois Grade School Music Association


On 8/3/07 4:36 PM, "Dale Bengston" <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:

> When you're working on a hosted file, the globals are "temporary" to
> the current user. If they were blank when the table was hosted, they
> will revert the next time you open the file.
> 
> To get globals to stick, you have to open the file locally with FMP
> client, set the globals and then re-host the file.
> 
> Dale
> 
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Jon Montgomery wrote:
> 
>> I have two data bases that were accessed via FX.PHP. Last year all
>> worked
>> fine.  Clients entered events and then printed a billing sheet that
>> they
>> mailed in.  Those billing sheets had some global fields for the
>> fees and
>> every thing worked!
>> 
>> Now to take advantage of another table that ended up being the same
>> in both
>> data bases.  I move the information in the second data base to the
>> first
>> data base (copy and paste the fields).  Recreated the needed
>> layouts.  But
>> for some reason, the Global fields in this new table do not work.
>> I enter
>> the fees in FMP and then when I quit the data base and then go back
>> on line,
>> those global fields are blank.  I am not sure what I did
>> different?  The
>> global field in the other table work fine.
>> 
>> Is there some checkbox I am missing in the Define Data Base?
>> Indexing?  Any
>> help would be appreciated.
>> 
>> I even tried going back to the old second data base (the one I
>> copied the
>> fields from) and it works.  All global info is there.  But not in
>> the new
>> table in the first data base.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Jon Montgomery
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jon Montgomery
>> Illinois Grade School Music Association
>> Home email: vicepresident at comcast.net
>> IGSMA email: vicepresident at igsmasouth.org
>> School email: jwmontgomery at dqud300.perry.k12.il.us
>> 
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