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Thanks for the input, I am going to check out the plug-ins that you mention. Henry, I think the general concensus of opinion is that runtime is not networkable - full stop. Anatoli, what do you mean by 'parked in a blank window?' is this some trick that I don't know about? Many thanks Kevin

Thanks Ernst, I will take a look at that when I get a moment. All the best Kevin

Arrrgh, 'runtime is not networkable'!!! - that sucks. I really need the ability to be able to stop people from switching between databases via the 'window', menu option and I need the application to have the appearance of being a single window, rather than a whole load of linked databases just positioned in the exact same position on top of one another, question is how, if I can't use the developer edition? Kevin

Hi, I have developed a job bag system with which I am experiencing some performance problems with loops. The system is served by a Mac G4 to around 10 cross platform hosts. This is my scenario: I have 2 databases - Jobs and Contacts. I go to create a new job, and I am asked to choose who the job is for - the contact. I have a list of available contacts which is a portal. The relationship is based on a global number field in the jobs database, which is set to 1 and a match field which is a number (or flag) in the contacts database which can either be '0' or '1' (so that contacts marked as '1' appear in the selection list). I have a filter function so that, say I know that the contact who the job is for contains 'John', I can type this into a text field and press the filter button, and return all the 'John's' in the contact database in the selection list. This works by first looping through all the contacts setting the number (flag) field to '0', then performing a find and finally setting all the matches number (flag) fields to '1' by looping through them again. This works fine, but it is slow, can anyone suggest an alternative approach to this, should I be using Filemaker server - would this speed it up? Many thanks for any help or advice. Regards Kevin Price-Ward

I've developed a job bag system for design agencies that I would like to package and sell. I will be writing manuals and the like shortly, but I need a solution that is stand alone and doesn't require the purchase of Filemaker by the end user. The system needs to run as client/server setup. I have an idea that this will require that each installation will require filemaker server, and then the runtime version of the system that acesses the published databases accross the network on each host machine. Is this correct, what are the pitfalls? Many thanks for any help or advice. Regards Kevin Price-Ward

Thanks to your response to my query Steven, you say use the pattern count function to find the carriage return character, what would happen if the lines of text do not contain any carriage returns, the field is like the contents of a letter, that the user just types into, therefore the text just flows from one line to the next - can you think of any way of doing this? Thanks again for you help Lar.

Does anyone know of a way to count the number of lines in a text field. Thank you Lar