January 31, 200322 yr Newbies If I have a database like such: Company.........Category a....................1 b....................1 c....................2 d....................2 I need a way to get a pop-up list, in another database, containing the Company name only for those items in category 2. P.S. using FMP 4
January 31, 200322 yr Sorry to not be so helpful, but I dont think you can do value lists based on relationships in fm4. It is easy in FM5.
January 31, 200322 yr Author Newbies Well that is a little helpful. I have a demo version of FMP 6 on my home computer I will have to try it on that version. I somehow doubt we will upgrade the systems here at work though, so Im back to a double (triple, quadruple, etc.) entry system *blech*
February 1, 200322 yr Author Newbies Someone from another forum pointed me in the right direction. This is how I ended up getting the correct values in my pop-up list: Contacts file: Company - Text field Category - Text field using a value list using custom values. FrghtForw Co name - Text field, using Options -> Auto-Enter -> calculated field defined as =Case(Category="Freight Forwarders", Company) Export Orders File: Freight Forwarder - Text field Freight Forwarder List - Value list using Values from Field FrghtForw Co name in Contacts file. Then used Field Format for Freight Forwarder field to choose pop-up list using value list Freight Forwarder List.
February 2, 200322 yr Author Newbies Edit to the above post: Its better to define FrghtForw Co name as a calcution field and set "Calculation Result Is" to Text. This way if I need to change information in a contacts record the FrghtForw Co name will update, otherwise I needed to delete any information in that field before changing the other info.
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