Hi All,

I have a table with customer and registration

in my layout I want to be able to go to a new record but the customer name must be automatically populated from current customer in previous layout. Both layouts are from the same table.

I just can not get the set variable and set field to work

I tried using global field but without success

this is my code

Hello

Firstly, you really need to get rid of the slashes in your table names. Call them 'Customer_Aircraft' or something, but you must get rid of the slashes. They will cause you untold misery at some point. As a rule don't use spaces or special characters in table names, layout names, table occurrence names or field names. Underscores are OK ( _ ), but avoid most other non-alphanumeric characters.

To your issue, in line 4 you need it to be

Set Field [Customer/Aircraft::Owner/Operator ; $$SetCustomer ]

The way you have it now, you are setting the field to nothing.

A footnote: don't use global $$variables, unless you need them to persist after the script has run out. In this example, a local $variable would be quite sufficient, and it would be cleared automatically when the script ends.

Hi Gismo,

I also noticed that you are using '/' in your table and field naming.  Filemaker will always warn you that it cannot be easily used and you should take those warnings seriously.  I highly encourage you to correct your table and field naming.