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hi JLauver unfortunately i couldn't find any option which toggled the menu behaviour, so i ended up living with it the way it is. this question still comes up from time to time though... cheers, wendy

Yes -- just uncheck the Specify File box. Each time you run the script you will be prompted to choose a file. cheers, Wendy

This has become our "watercooler" thread.... "Philadelphia" sounds like a series that was called "All the Rivers Run" here. Definitely an Aussie series. Sigrid Thornton's lead character was called Philadelphia IIRC. Made in the 80s & set in the 1800s ? The one about the Jewish family doesn't ring any bells, but has got me intrigued. More clues? cheers, Wendy

"Rabbit Proof Fence" was indeed a great film. Recommended. "Lantana" was one of the best in recent years. Thoroughly recommended. I could also mention "Gallipoli", "Strictly Ballroom", "Muriel's Wedding" [no definite article in any of these titles!] but the latter had a particularly Australian sense of humour that others may not appreciate. ( and Vaughan means "The Dish" not "The Disk", I think ) just how far OT can we go with this thread....?? cheers, Wendy

Vaughan - the song you brought up. I'm the bird that suddenly appears! CyborgSam - this Aussie tries not to think of that movie. Never want to see it. Looked awful from the trailers, and the critics all said as much. Go with an Aussie film made by Aussies instead. cheers, Wendy

You are doing the "Specify Field" part correctly. Now choose "Specify" and type in "Done" (with the quotes) This is simply setting the status field to say "Done". Voila! cheers, Wendy

I don't know whether I should hunt down and kill Vaughan, Bob, or both of you. That ******* song comes into my head every time I see my own picture. Perhaps I'll just peck you both to death. cheers, Wendy

Beware - another thing not copied is the tab order. What a royal pain that is when working with many layouts of many fields. But as someone once suggested to me, you could always pay a lesser-being to do the tedious re-numbering for you. cheers, Wendy

hi Sharon In your print dialog box, make sure the option at the top left shows "Records being browsed" instead of "Current record". Also make sure your layout is set for the correct number of columns to match the number of labels across the page (Layouts menu -> Layout Setup -> Print in X columns). hope that helps! cheers, Wendy

A friend of mine swears by "Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop". Says she uses it to clear ANY song out of her head, and somehow it never sticks instead. Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang Well the Shoop Shoop stands for the mood you're in And the Diddy Wop means let the fun begin.... eeuwgh.

I downloaded two plugins from David McKee (File Toolbox and Display Toolbox) and unfortunately couldn't get either of them enabled on my computer. Win 2K Pro, FMPro 5.5 & 6.0v3 Dev. Perhaps they are more compatible with older versions of FM though. Shame, cos they looked useful & I love free stuff cheers, Wendy

I may be be wrong, but I don't think the subject line of this message refers to repeating fields. My advice is to control the interface used for inquiring about products. Use globals for your search fields, click a button to perform the find, which also records the information on the product searched. 2 ways of recording the search come to mind: (1) A number field in the Products db -- add 1 to it each time it is queried. OR (2) Another database -- create a new record each time there is an inquiry, writing the productID, date, and whatever other information you require. Your existing Inquiry db may suit this, but I'm not clear from your description what its structure actually is. The second option would take a bit longer to set up, but would allow for better detail in reporting product queries in the long run. cheers, Wendy

what do you mean by "based on wrong datatypes"? it's not a related VL in the traditional sense, we're trying to do it from a different approach. One field requires a VL of only those records that have "supervisor" checked, for example, another field requires a VL of only those records with "examiner" checked. any input is always appreciated! cheers, wendy

hi cbvid, I asked this same question in the "Right Brain" forum, thread title "layout pop-up menu in status area". I got some good suggestions, but ultimately I couldn't change the way it worked on my PC (Win2K Prof). Good luck! cheers, Wendy

Quick-and-dirty 2-db sample attached -- two instances of the same field, using different value lists to demonstrate. In real life, our situation is as follows. Database of Academics who can belong to any number of several different categories (e.g. Supervisor, Examiner, Coordinator), indicated by checkboxes. Different fields in the main database require a pop-up list of only those Academics who fit the relevant category. There are far too many Academics to scroll through, so the loss of type-ahead functionality is a problem. At the moment we have reverted to using the VL of all Academics. Any thoughts as to why type-ahead is lost here? cheers, Wendy VLtypeahead.zip