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By philipcaplan
I have a table with about 100,000 records. One of the fields in the table is called "DecimalNumber" (type is "Number").
There are many records (perhaps 10 to 20%) which have the same value in that field as another. Sometimes only 2 records have common values, sometimes more.
What I want to do is to delete all records except one of each of those which share a value, thereby removing 'duplicates'.
How do I achieve this? I assume a script will be needed, if so please can you give me the whole of that script.
Many thanks in anticipation.
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By interrobang
I have only been working with FileMaker for a couple of months now, and it seems pretty daunting.
The most pressing issue that I need help with is finding the duplicates in my contacts database.
I've followed the instructions found here: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3441
And here is my script:
My "UniqueID" field uses the contact's last name and email address to calculate a unique id.
I followed the instructions exactly... slowly figuring out how to accomplish each step. I am fairly confident that every step is correct except for "If [$id = Scratch::UniqueID]" because I didn't know how to enter the variable into the calculation. I just typed it in... which I don't think is correct. Also, on my computer (in the picture) the $ sign looks more like an S, but on another computer it looks as it should.
Thank you for any time and advice you're able to give!
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By Willy Koch
Hello,
This one is a bit tricky:
I have a database with people where the email is the primary key. These people can have one or more values from a value list. The value list are different check box categories that the person belongs to, like what type of movie they prefer: Action, Comedy, Cartoon etc.
Is there a script or function that will check for duplicates on import and retain the existing values, and just append the new category? Or in other words:
Jack@example.com already exists in the database and he likes "Drama" and "Detective movies"
In an external text file, with several people, there's also an entry for
jack@example.com "Romantic comedy"
When this duplicate record is found, I'd like the import process to append "Romantic Comedy" to Jack's record, so it reads:
jack@example.com "Detective movies", "Drama", "Romantic comedy"
It's given that I've created the new value list entry before importing.
Thanks for any pointers.
Regards,
Willy T. Koch
Norway
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