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No matter what you do... get multiple monitors!!! My main machines has 4, others have 3 and two, one screen is useless! Also - some simple things after so many years... Get a good phone headset... and get one of those footrest things from staples... If you have those things, and plug them into any old pc or mac, you will surely be much more happy Also moving air, ( a small fan, or usb flyfan (love this) ) And one of those college-sized fridges for your office! Also, - invest in a projector for when you meet with clients, you won't regret it!

I have a database with three files. Tickets, proposals, and proposal line items. A Ticket can have many proposals. a Proposal can have many line items. Withing a proposal, there are categories, which i have created with tabs. I'm using the "isfronttabpanel" to set an unstored calc as the primary key. On one screen in tickets, I show a list of all related proposals, next the the proposal you want you click view, which sets another key, this lists that proposal data. Now you click on a tab within that, and another key gets set based on the tab you're on. The data below in the portal doesn't seem to "refresh" correctly unless I go in and out of the record, or go to layout mode and back to browse, or some kind of mechanations. I have enclosed the file... maybe someone can take a look at the tickets screen. When I set the category field normally like with a drop-down, the relationship works correctly, but not with the unstored calc as part of a key. Any ideas? focus.zip

Here's a weird question, the customer had fm7.... We have a time log for truck fuel fillings. All I want to do is look at the time, and if it's before 6am or after 6pm, flag a warning. I've written all kinds of permutations like: Case (if (time) < 06:00;"Time Warning";if (time) > 18:00;"Time Warning";"" and it doesn't work right, i can't figure out a rhyme or reason why some come up with warnings and some don't the times seem all over the place, oh and (time) is a valid time field.... what obvious stupid thing am i doing wrong? I even tried it with just one comparison, and it is still all over the place.... help -John

I'm actually stumped on this one.... I have a database of "companies" I'd like the user to see a list of available "groups" as well as create and delete new groups, then next to it, I'd like to be able to "add the current company to the currently selected group" I'd like some feedback on this... upon writing this it seems simple, there are some other "relationships" in the file that may be causing me problems, but I'm trying to take one step at a time to making this work. Thanks in advance for any help!

You won't have to be online to use the solution, we have product activation worked out.... and we already have a deal worked out with the sponsors, becuase they will be distributing it as an ad specialty for a fixed fee per copy..... now that I've reassured everyone about the business end of my solution... does anyone know how best to make it work?

Good ideas, the same ones I came up with I think, I need it to be cross platform, more users on the windows side especially.... right now I am leaning towards FTP and batch files and scripts, this way, not only could I push advertising, but possibly program updates, new modules, and additionally the ability to send data back the other way..... any thoughts? What is the best FTP filemakerk tool? -John

No, it's for a free version of the software, that will be subsidised by a SMALL banner ad that runs in the software, will also be used for information on updates, etc. So, no that I promise not to spam them, any useful ideas? -John

Hi, I want to be able to provide advertising in my solutions that changes. I want to pull images from my web server, into a container field in the customer's files, this way the ads would periodically update automatically..... does anyonehave any idea on how to do this? I was looking for a plugin from waves in motion that looked promising, but they say they will no longer be developing it.... am I missing something stupidly simple? or is this going to be as difficult as it seems..... -John

Hi, I want to be able to provide advertising in my solutions that changes. I want to pull images from my web server, into a container field in the customer's files, this way the ads would periodically update automatically..... does anyonehave any idea on how to do this? I was looking for a plugin from waves in motion that looked promising, but they say they will no longer be developing it.... am I missing something stupidly simple? or is this going to be as difficult as it seems..... -John