Auto Enter Calcs and Data Separation

[OlgerDiekstra]

I have an iPad app that uses 2 databases. One is mostly for the UI but has some tables with data, and the other is predominantly an image repository that is used by the first database. The reason for this separation is that I don't have to redownload all the images (400 or so at the moment) every time I do an update to the app. The Image repository only has a couple of tables and barely any scripts or UI components. The UI part is only 1.5MB or so, as opposed to 150MB for the images.

When loading images (which is done from the UI app which has the image repository set up as a data source) I use auto enter calcs to extract some data from the images (resolution, image name, etc) for later use in the app. However, I found that the auto calc fields don't fire when I insert data via the external data source (I have the image tables setup in my UI app in the schema with relationships etc.)

Does anyone know if this is expected behaviour? I would have though the auto enter calcs would fire regardless, but this doesn't appear to be the case when the table is in a different database.

 

Forgot to mention, I'm on FM16.

Edited June 27, 2019 by OlgerDiekstra