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

[DC]

LOL! joel... snap!

but (IMHO) my answer was better because of the mind numbing detail about 
opening scripts!

dan

Joel Shapiro had written:
> Or alternatively you can have a script set to run on Opening that places 
> the values you want into global fields.  (This way, you could change the 
> globals in the future just by changing the script, instead of having to 
> take the file off FMS, change it, then open back up in FMS)
> 
> -Joel
> 
> 
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Dale Bengston 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
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