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Truncated field name

Aditya
in Importing & Exporting

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Hi all,

I have a FM DB, I want to export to excel so that users can use it in the way they want after I process the data from the FM5.5. The problem I am facing is while exporting the data all field names are truncated to 8 characters, I have tried all possible formats but could not solve the problem.

Hope you will have solution of this problem,

Thanks in advance

What platform are you on?

What version of FM are you using?

What export format have you selected?

What version of Excel are you using?

-bd

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I am using Mac OS X

File Maker Pro 5.5

Excel 2001

and I have tried all options to export but only DBF option exported the headers that too truncated.

Thanks

  • 2 months later...

Anybody ever come across a solution for this?

Try exporting as a Merge file. This is basically a comma seperated file, but exports the full field names as the first record.

It is not so much a Filemaker problem, as it is that these other data formats only allow for an 8 character field name.

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