Boomer231

Well, it is bittersweet that I read this response! Thank God I'm not the only one that has encountered this. We did a complete network server restart (got lucky and caught it during a sceduled shutdown). The restart with the removal of SecureFM (and some unrelated network security work) appeared to make the problem go away. Is it possible that you are using SecureFM? Thanks for the tip on how to work-around if I encounter this again.

Sorry so long in responding - it appears that we had a network bug of some sort. We uninstalled SecureFM and some addtional network software. Everything appears back to normal! I'll advise if we isolate what the problem was so others don't end up in the same situation. Thanks for the responses - was nice to hear what was going on with others.

We have recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.5. I have found that you cannot copy a field and paste it in Layout Mode. When the field is pasted, it is treated as a graphical image. This seriously affects our design productivity. Is this a bug found also in the Mac version? Does anyone have a workaround for this problem, and has anyone heard of a fix in the works from FM? Thanks a lot - just thought I'd throw this out there for those of you who have not yet upgraded as a "heads up."

Thank you very much for all your help. I've set the script to fire based upon user input from four different workstations for now (it'll be hit and miss on the time for a couple weeks, but this still shows some forward progress), and I'm looking at the docs for Winlaunch now.

I tried the simple loop, but it didn't want to run more than once. Of course, I just tried to pause for six hours, then run again. Absolutely did not work. I will try the more complicated script and see how that works out. Dissappointed that this ties up FM on the computer though - I get an hour-glass during the running of the script, so that's one copy that is out of the running. Thank you very much for your help, and I'll let you know how it works out!

I have a script that I need to fire about once every six hours. I tried just writing a simple loop and a counter, so I'd have to reset it every couple days as a test. Wasn't tickled about tying up the computer, but seemed a simple fix. However, the script only fires once. Is there a better way to automate a script function? Seems silly to have to purchase a plug-in for such a anticipated task. I'm running FM Server on a Win NT machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My backups and notifications are running great, just tied up on this one issue.

I have a design that requires that data move routinely from one database to another. I have found that writing a script to import your players data into the "history" database can work very nicely. Make sure that you utilize a unique "matching field" in the import so you don't end up with a bunch of useless duplicate information. Making a relationship based upon each player after that to calculate averages and such should be cake after that.

A common mistake I made with self-joins originally is to mistakenly place my fields into the portal that I'd created for my self-join. That gave me a result like you describe. Ensure that your fields are the related fields through your self-join relationship. Example; instead of a field named "calc_state", it should be (as an example) "self_join:calc_state" Hope this helps. I struggled over this silly mistake for over an hour when I started using portals and self-joins.