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This is a guess but could it have anything to do with the server having two network cards and the user logs into different databases on different IPs/NICs? I have learned to live with this problem with my Filemaker Advanced (Developer) 8/9. Filemaker Server has license checking that sees each fm software app diferently because it exists on different NICs. Even though the server app is the same. I guess I could bridge the two NIC's on the server, but I'd rather keep FM traffic on one NIC and all other traffic on the other NIC. Any ideas?

I gave up using Advanced because of this. I only use advanced when I debug scripts or do runtimes. Its frustrating.

I'm in the same position. I wave tried everything to use our Symbol MC50's with Filemaker. If anybody has any ideas let me know.

I've been using this plugin (works beautifully! Thanks.)for a year now but when I deployed a new machine and installed FM Pro 8 the plugin won't load. It just isn't visible in the plugin window of Filemaker. Works on other machines with FM Pro and FM 8 Advanced. Any Ideas? Win XP SP2. It is a VLA version of FM Pro 8.

Reinstalled the whole box and it still isn't loading. ?

I'm using the FMExample plugin to do transactions in my database. Problem is I have one XP SP2 machine that only loads the AutoUpdate plugin. I have reinstalled FM8 Pro twice. and It still won't load the FMExample plug in. I'm just about to the point of reimaging the machine. Any ideas? I think the problem lies in the registry. It works on all the other FM8Pro machines (Win and Mac) in the building.

Excellent Thanks.

Yes a field modification tracker would be beautiful. What I'm doing now is requiring the user to press button(s) (Scripted) to initiate changes to the database.

I'm using FM 8 Advanced and need help recording changes to some fields from a record to another table occurance in the same file. Do I have to do a script full of go to: field 1 copy paste field 2 copy paste field 3 copy paste ....? I could do a copy record but it only pastes delimited text in to one field. I really want to keep the data usable and clean. Thanks for any help.

No. All dll's are there. It seems to be the compression utility this installer uses. Either that or Filemaker runtime is realy touchy with compression. I have 3 options with this NSIS install BZIP2, LZMA, and ZLIB all of which do not work. Even Windows XP zip utility breaks it. However the old ZIP program ZIPMAGIC 2000 from Mijenix does work but it is only a zip program not an installer.

I have the same problem. Runtimes I create only work from 10.1-10.2 and 10.3 and greater.

I have a FMP runtime file that is large. It has lots of large graphic (metafile) layouts in it. I am using NSIS installer for windows and the runtime file fails (won't launch) after any sort of compression I do to it. Any ideas?

I rcommend Scriptology it seems to be the best for scripting. It is currently out of print but you can find a used one on amazon. Check www.scriptology.com.

Thanks everyone. A workaround was to convert the fields to dates fields in Excel before the import. But these will help me in the future. The standard date format seems to be an Oracle Export standard. I thought Filemaker would be friendlier with date formats.

I have a field that is text (04-APR-04) that is a date with this format I need to convert it to an actual filemaker date field 04/04/2004. Any Ideas? I got the field to APR/04/04 but it is still text and converting the month to numeral date has become a pain. Version: v5.x Platform: Windows 2000

Thanks everyone for the "break name into three parts" help I have a problem with the city state zip field. I'm trying to parse data from one field to three fields City State and Zip The data looks like this: Any ideas? Here is what the data is like: Lake Oswego, OR 97201 Portland, OR 97201-0000 Oregon CIty, OR 97830 Gresham, Oregon 97208-0001 West Linn, Oregon 97208-0001 Problem is Cities can be one or two words and Zip is one or two words. Any Ideas?

I am having trouble extracting a persons name into three parts First middle Last. Data is like this: Smith, John Jones, Fred Johnson James H. I use leftwords to pull the last name but if I use RightWords for the First name the Middle Initial gets in the way. I would really like to gather all three fields. First middle and Last.

Thanks. I should have posted that I found it. But it again was your answer on another post that got me to the Matrix Modeling white paper re: regarding this topic. Here is the link that helps: http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/resources/MatrixModelling.pdf Brian

I have a staff database (1 record per person) with a relationship to their actual work positions (many records per person). This database has a relationship ( ne record per location) to a school database for the work location and data about that location (ie address phone numbers etc). My question is can I view address and phone number data from the staff database via a relationship from the school database? If no is this a limitation of filemaker to only do one level of relationships (ie a star pattern of databases)? I'm using FM 5.5 on windows.

It works great! Thanks

I'm trying to convert 00:00:00 hh:mm:ss to decimal time. I have 1h 45min (1:45) I want a field that has 1.75 hrs in decimal time. How can I do this?