[FX.php List] Re-That sinking feeling: FileMaker 12 & FX ?

[Tim 'Webko' Booth]

Dear Troy,

> Unless I really goofed, the spreadsheet shows that the XML from the  
> WPE is messed up.
>
> What seems to be happening is that the XML from the WPE shows all of  
> the expected field names including the field names in the portals,  
> but if any of the portals have NO related records in them, then in  
> the <RESULTSET> section, all of those <COL>...</COL> items are  
> totally omitted, instead of having place-holders in the form of  
> <COL><DATA/></COL>.
>
> Since, in this example record I've been looking at, there are 145  
> normal + portal fields, and 4 of the 6 portals have no related  
> records, there are way fewer <COL>...</COL> items returned than  
> there should be, so as soon as the first column that has an empty- 
> portal field is encountered, all the data is misaligned. That is,  
> good data from real, filled fields, starts falling in the spots that  
> empty portal columns should be.
>
> Am I being incomprehensible?
>
> Anyway, is this a huge bug in the WPE in FileMaker Server 12? Can  
> anyone reproduce this?

Can you also check this behaviour on FM11?

But that would totally suck (and yet another reason that I'm glad I  
never pull portal data directly, even though it may be inefficient...)

Maybe Bob could check a copy of the database on his FM12 setup  
(haven;t got around to it yet...)

Cheers

Webko