gareth2210

OK, so here's the problem... I'm building a simple database for local primary schools using local census data from 1900. I want to find things like all the male, married, knitwear workers or all the female, widowed teachers or whatever. Simple multiple searches done by justing putting FMPro into find mode and then getting it to search after kids have ticked off all the criteria they want. But, I would like to keep a record of the search criteria so that I can display this on the 'results' screen. I've set up global fields that grab the search criteria before the search is actualy done and these display beautifully in the header at the top of the results page. However, they always seem to be a search 'behind' the relevant criteria. So I get 'search 1's criteria while the actual search is done using 'search 2'. Any iodeas of how i can force the globals to reset themselves or something? I've tried all the obvious (well, obvious to me!) and it doesn't seem to work. TIA gareth

First of all ... sorry for not replying sooner to say "thanks". My first FMPro project is now out there and people are saying nice things. I feel warm and valued : ) And the solution (for me) was the Dacons plugin. Thanks again, it's good to know thatthere are people out there who know stuff and help newbies like me (who doesn't!) ta gareth

I'm looking to develop an app that would be distributed to schools as runtime versions. On the main server would be a runtime that stored student data (name, work completed etc) and then on each client would be a runtime version that would contain activities for kids to do. Ideally the student data file would send personal data to the activity file so that kids would get a personalised interface etc. When kids completed the work this data would be sent back to the personal data file on the server (along with any files created). I think this is impossible with runtimes from what I've read here ... or am I misundersatanding what's going on? Basically I want a kid to sit down at any machine on the network and get their personalised workspace. Is there another way of doing this without having to get schools to buy a site license for the full FM app? Thanks in advance for any help Gareth

I am developing something for schools and the 'kiosk mode' would be perfect (no distracting menus etc) but kids will need to copy stuff from the app into Word or some other program (the app is a kind of dictionary). So, I want a way to remove all the FMPro menu items in my runtime version so that no-one can play with File, edit, view and etc. Is this possible? Please say it is ... and tell me how! TIA gareth