Robert Carter

You're right, it's an auto-entry with a calculated value, not a calculation field. I switch the type to calculation and now everything works the way I wanted it to. I had always figured that a calculated field meant a field with a calculated value, thanks for pointing out the difference. -- RC

I've recently added a field to my database which is calculated from two already existing fields (let's call them field A and field :. I added the new field to a layout, but it (the new field) comes up empty in all records. It will populate itself if I make a change to either A or B, but I'd rather not have to do this for every single record in this layout. Is there to make FMP automatically populate a new calculated field? Thanks in advance-- RC

Hi all-- I was looking at the article Building Web Services with FileMaker Pro by Bill Humphries on xml.com. Apparently in FMP 5.5 it was possible to output XML directly to the web by passing the command "-format=-dso_xml&-find". I've been attempting to adapt this method to my version of FileMaker Pro (8.5). If I understand things correctly, FMP has replaced the Web Companion plug-in from earlier versions with Instant Web Publishing. But IWP doesn't seem to recognize the "-format" request. And there doesn't seem to be anything in any of the help documents I've read that suggests that one can export XML directly to the web in FMP 8.5. Has this feature of FileMaker been dropped in recent versions? Thanks-- Robert P.S.-- for some reason, the FM Forums web editor insists on adding a space in the middle of the word "find" in the request string above. It's not supposed to be there, but I can't figure out how to keep the editor from doing it. So just pretend that space isn't there.