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Another options is https://360works.com/supercontainer/ It's a great product, great company, and I've used it in the past, but have found external container storage does the job for me most of the time these days.

Five GB doesn't seem all that big, we work with much larger files. Regarding your options: 1. Sure, you could export field contents and re-import. You'd want to test a few files to see how much you'd really save. 2. How would this change anything? You're still dealing with the same 2000+ PDFs. If you don't have to encrypt the files, I would lean towards open storage. An advantage of encrypted, other than the obvious security, is that it deals with creating the folders. With open storage you'll need to handle that, but it's a one-time setup that's fairly straightforward.

There's no simple way to do it, but you might be able to achieve this with a web viewer, something like: https://www.sloperdata.com/demos/easy-filemaker-quill-integration

Not bad, although a bit over-engineered for my taste. Thank you for sharing. FYI the "second" layout calc's object name is "first Copy" so it fails to refresh.

The term you're thinking of might be, not magic key, but 'multi-key.' It can indeed be quite useful, not only for going to related records, but displaying those records in a portal.

Consider using a block of text on the layout, you can format it in red or something so it stands out, and then apply a hide condition to it: Case( Grade <> 11 ; 1 ; not IsEmpty(Voucher) ; 1 ; 0 ) 1 and 0 are shorthand for True and False. When either of those conditions are true, the alert text will be hidden.

Possibly you were sent a link to a page for downloading your software? If so, go to that page and it should have download links for any version your license covers.

I've gone down the UID road and have gone back to using plain 'old school' serial numbers. I would only use UIDs when there's a scenario that warrants it, e.g. certain syncing situations. YAGNI

Not quite clear what this is about. Screenshots might help.

I'm not sure I fully understand the setup here, but one alternate approach you could try is to script a Find for the crew records you want to display, then grab their IDs and put them in a global field, then use that global field to drive the portal's relationship. You wouldn't need to apply a filter at that point.

Short answer is no, long answer is "it depends." I think you may find this helpful:

If you don't see the Enable/Disable command in the Edit menu, open the Preferences dialog and select the 'Use advanced tools' checkbox, then quit FileMaker and re-launch it.

I agree that it's not cost-effective to re-invent the wheel. That said, you sound like a person who enjoys tinkering and learning. In which case, you will learn a lot by building an accounting system. You need to think about not just FileMaker, but how to structure things. Many people have spent lots of time thinking about this. See for example: https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/Account.html My advice is to start by building The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work, and iterate from there. Also, you're making life more difficult by using such an old version of FileMaker. And it will make it more difficult for us to help you here. Not only do newer versions have useful new features, but security is much improved in newer versions of FileMaker. You claim to be concerned about security. So, save yourself some aggravation and upgrade!

Thanks for clarifying, sorry I can't help you there.

Do you mean how to set it with a script? First you need to find out what value is assigned to the checkbox by its value list. E.g. is it "yes" or "1" or what. Then you simply use the Set Field step. Not sure why this is in the MBS forum.