Anatoli Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 I have huge file, where various files will be imported, processed and then the records will be easy posted into company system. Problem is, that FileMaker is not working correctly. Matching names import is missing 50% of names. Field names import is absolute joke. FM 5.5v2, W2000, plenty of everything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 You wanna calm down, take a breather, then be a bit more specific... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted November 13, 2002 Author Share Posted November 13, 2002 The only chance was to align them manually. And what more I can add? I have screen shots so I will post them tomorrow. And as I said, both methods are not working. The matching names link 50% of them. Field names were just mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted November 13, 2002 Author Share Posted November 13, 2002 Screenshots: http://www.didi.cz/test/imag/fieldnames.gif and http://www.didi.cz/test/imag/matchingnames.gif Bug as Mount Everest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Well, the names have to be *exactly* the same both sides for it to work. Some have underscores instead of spaces, they wont match. It could also be the colon is throwing things off. It's not a terribly sophisticated system, I guess anything better would require AI and that's probably bring the hit rate to below 50%! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 I didn't analyzed the system properly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonwood Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Wouldn't it be nice if you could resize that "fancy small window FM is using for import"? When things aren't in order, it can be a real pain to line things up when there are a lot of fields! -- Jason Wood HeyWoody.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted November 15, 2002 Author Share Posted November 15, 2002 I couldn't agree more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennedy Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 It would also be nice to have some other Field matching algs. For example, an alpha resort where it sorts all of both sides field names alphabetically... when your names are just a little different (spaces vs. underscores vs. nothing between words; all caps vs proper vs lowercase; abbreviated vs fully written out; etc.), you'll tend to end up just needing to rearrange up or down by one field in the majority of the cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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