Kesh

Now this is the reason I signed up here. Great job guys!

"Go to record ... Next" has always been a bit... quirky. I don't know why, but if you don't have it set up just right (as was pointed out above), it just keeps going or doesn't get the right information at all.

Nope, I have the same problem on an iBook under 10.2.1, which I just discovered yesterday. Not fun. I did have a server-based DB open at the time, so that may be the source of the problem.

Thanks! Now I wonder how long it'll be before Advanced Filemaker 6 books come out.

Which book would this be?

Make sure that it really is a plain-text file. If it was opened in TextEdit, it defaults to RTF no matter what the actual extension is made. Aside from that, I would recommend opening the file in TextEdit, using Cmd-Shift-T for plain text formatting, and then resaving the file under another name. That would update its file type to plain text, and FMP shouldn't have any problem with it at that point.

Ugh. I've done this sort of thing before, and it's not pretty. Unfortunately, the DB I did this in was deleted from my HD, so I can't reference it at the moment to see what I did. I'll reply to the thread in, oh, December when I can get my backup CDs out of storage.

Hmm. I would question (heh) making the Questions a single field. After all, if a question gets changed, old answers are no longer valid. I would personally make each question a seperate field, and each record is one person's responses to each of the questions. So, you would have: Question 1: {Answer} Question 2: {Answer} etc. If you needed to run a different questionaire later, leave the old fields intact, but simply create a new layout with new Question fields, or duplicate the old database, delete all the records and change the questions. The former lets you keep all the responses to all the questionaires together (while hiding old ones from the users), while the latter lets you organize each questionaire into seperate, smaller databases.

It might be nice if FMP had an 'open with...' option. Maybe FMP 7.0?