Memo Fields

[learning]

Is there any way to bring memo fields from dBase or Foxpro

into filemaker?

Thanks

Larry

[Kurt Knippel]

Maybe, it really depends upon what is in the memo field.

"Memo" fields in those are typically BLOB fields, which in the ory could contain any kind of binary data and were often stored seperately from the main db files. They might also simply be STRING fields, which is just a text field.

Start by seeing if you can export the data into a CSV file and open it in Excel (because it can display the raw data very easily) to make sure that the data is as you expect it to look. If everything is OK, then just import that CSV file into Filemaker.

[Mike D.]

Something to consider when importing a memo block into Excel, is that a cell in Excel has a limit of 255 characters. A memo block has the potential to contain more than that.

Mike