Todd Griffith

Ah, I see. Thanks for the detailed description! Todd

Well, my guess is that the runtime app would be placed on a server somewhere withing the building, and they could just launch it from there (We're talking OS9 and OSX clients here, and just a few at that, perhaps 3 or 4). When one has it open, the others couldn't access it, which isn't too much of a problem here. I've also thought about the idea of web enabling it. And that would let several users in at once? Also, our servers here are OS9/ASIP, so I guess the FM8 Advanced would need to be installed on an OSX machine with a static IP serving it out to everyone. Thanks!

Hi all, Quite new to FM and still using the demo of v7, but I have a few questions before I actually purchase it, including which version to get... Am I correct in assuming with FM8 Advanced that I can create a database that runs stand alone, and that others can search through and edit? For instance, I'd like to create a contact database that our advertising staff can search through and add records to WITHOUT having the full blown FM package installed? I could just create it initially as a stand alone, then pass it along to them to populate with their data? Then I'd like to create yet another one for our sports department (we're a small newspaper) to populate with football stats, etc, again without them having the full blown package. I can think of hundreds of other uses for FM here at the office, but the expense would be just too great for everyone to have full versions if I can just create standalone versions of the databases that they can edit/modify. Hope I'm making sense here... TIA

Hi Mark, Well, pasting in the paragraph symbol also did it quite literally. Instead, I put a return elsewhere int he field, highlighted the return, then copy and pasted it into the replace field to get it to work. Curious, where can I find a list of these special characters? Thanks again!

Hi all, obviously I'm very much a newbie at FM. I run a newspaper website where the prvious database whas a simple flat file text file. I've successfully imported it into FM, but now have an issue I can't seem to solve. Wherever there were html line breaks, I need to turn into normal carriage returns within the field; i.e., find " " and replace with a carriage return. What is the proper way to do that? In BBEdit I would replace with "r", but FM seems to take that quite literally. TIA