slylock_fox

Okay so I am just trying to get a script to be able to look through each task record and get the task ID and then paste the task ID to a custom dialog as a type of alert system. So basically the user clicks a trigger button and an alert pops up using custom dialog or however, which then tells them each task ID that is associated with their name... I can't get the field to concatenate each of the previous ID's in with it, it just pastes the last field read. Any ideas? Thanks. The Fox

Sorry for not being very clear. The data has to do with equipment that we use in our building. So whenever we have a computer that comes into us and we swap the hard drives from one computer (one record in the equipment table) to another computer (another record in the equipment table), we want a script that will circumvent having to copy and paste each value from each field from one record to the other. And the only way we can figure that we do this is to copy the information onto a seperate table, a holding table, then copy the fields from record B over to A, then from the holding table, paste the fields from the holding table to record B. Essentially, its not really pasting from one layout to another, I'm trying to get the information in one record and copy it over to another record on a separate table.

I am brand new to this forum and fairly new to the use of FileMaker Pro. I am currently using FMP 10 and am having some problems with cross table functions. I am trying to create a script that will essentially allow me to copy fields from layout A, hold onto those fields, then copy fields from layout B onto layout A, then paste the fields from layout A to layout B. Basically just switch the fields from layout A to layout B and from layout B to layout A. Sorry if this seems confusing. What I am doing right now is I have all of the layouts on one table my Equipment table, and then I have a Swap_HD's table to hold onto the data in transit. However, where my problem occurs is when I try to use the set field function in my script to automate this process, it doesn't copy from my Equipment table to my Swap_HD's table...Any ideas? Thanks, The Fox