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Importing Records into runtime

drags
in Importing & Exporting

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Hello everyone!

I have been reading various topics on this forum but I can't seem to find the solution I'm looking for, so I'm hoping someone can help.

I have a runtime solution the opens with a certain password that does not allow importing and exporting of records, lets call this db1. It has over 124,000 records in it. I would like to have the users download an update called db2 which may have only 1800 new records that need to be imported into db1.

What I would like to happen is the user opens db2, clicks a button that runs a script that opens db1 (with a password that allows importing and exporting) then runs an external script within db1 to import the new records. I want to do this automatically because I don't want the user to mess it up by not matching the correct fields.

The tests I have tried are not working because db2 always has to be the same name because the script in db1 is looking for a certain file. Is there any way to from db2 "Export Records Into" a certain solution. This would be the most direct approach. The other problem I'm having is that I can't seem to open db1 from db2 with a special password.

I may be going about this the wrong way, how does anyone update runtime solutions?

Thank you

Kevin

Here is the basic setup.

DB2 opens with password that allows DB1 to import/export. DB2 exports its records to a file that DB1 is looking for. DB2 closes DB1, then runs a script in DB1 (thus opening it with the proper password) which imports the records.

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Thank You Kurt

I try that now

Kevin

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I can't get it to work in Runtime.

When I run db2 as a filemaker file everything works fine, but when I try to run it as a Runtime Solution I get the following error:

"Update-1.fp5" could not be created on this disk. Use a different name, make more room on the disk, remove the write-protection or use a different disk.

Anybody have any clue as to why this is happening?

Thank you

Kevin

I'm using Developer 5.5 on Win98 SE

Installing from a CD?

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No, I'm just testing this on my C drive.

What am I missing?

Thanks Kevin

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