Gunther Stern

got it! Thanks so much. I missed this on Monday.

I'm sorry, What is not happening is it is not seeing new clients I added on the clients side. So it only works with the original three I put in. I've just been staring at it so long I can't remember the current problem. Your are right. I does create a record with the original three "clients" but when I enter a new client it is not picked up in the dropdown in events so I can't chose them. I misstated the problem in my original post because I have just starred at this for two full days. Thanks for looking at it and any advice you might have.

I am so frustrated after two solid days of working on this really simple join table example. I am trying to create a little iphone application in which I can quickly track my homeless outreach contacts on the fly. I have been so frustrated. I made a lot of progress at one point by just deleting the portal and starting over. I attached two databases, test which works just the way it is supposed to. A simple widget model based on something I saw on youtube. and Client test which is my attempt. Test works fine. Client test is very similar with a couple of extra fields including a calculated full name field but nothing significantly different. Right now the problem is the relationship will not create a new record in the join table. Maybe I don't even need a join table. Not sure but the join table was one of my attempts at a solution. I have been using filemaker since 6 but only sporadically. I used to be able to create simple solutions on the fly but I just spent the whole weekend trying to get this to work. I don't have any hair left to pull out! Help! test.fmp12 NewClientTest.fmp12