Hi All

I'm relatively new to filemaker, and now I have to pull it out of the bag.

I want to have either a pull down menu or radio buttons, with 5 entries.

I have designed a layout, and upon choosing/selecting 1 of the 5 choices I would like to link that to a client logo, so the logo will automatically be shown on my layout... why can't I seem to get this to work? apart from a complete lack of common sense!

All help greatly recieved.

Az

First create an repeated container field gLogos.

Put each logo img in proper repetition.

Now define calculated field cLogo rsult container as

case

(

choice=choice1, GetRepetition(gLogos,1),

choice=choice2, GetRepetition(gLogos,2),

choice=choice3, GetRepetition(gLogos,3),

choice=choice4, GetRepetition(gLogos,4),

choice=choice5, GetRepetition(gLogos,5),

)

dj

Thanks dj

I'm so new, that I don't understand... where does the field "choice" come from?

Az

Pulling my hair out....

As you said:

I want to have either a pull down menu or radio buttons, with 5 entries.

Well choice should be the name of the above field.

Dj

Ok I got that, I tought filemaker was simple -)

I can't get this working

Case

(

logo_selecta=logo_selecta1, GetRepetition(gLogos,1),

logo_selecta=logo_selecta2, GetRepetition(gLogos,2),

logo_selecta=logo_selecta3, GetRepetition(gLogos,3),

logo_selecta=logo_selecta4, GetRepetition(gLogos,4),

logo_selecta=logo_selecta5, GetRepetition(gLogos,5),

)

logo_selecta is the name of the field I use for selecting the logo

"Either an operator was omited, this function cannot be found or "(" was not expected here."

Any clues?

Hi ,

You had a couple of errors in you calculation. One, you need to put your text logo_selecta1, etc. in quotes as shown below and to, you had one too many commas in your calc at the bottom after gLogos,t)

Case(

logo_selecta="logo_selecta1", GetRepetition(gLogos,1),

logo_selecta="logo_selecta2", GetRepetition(gLogos,2),

logo_selecta="logo_selecta3", GetRepetition(gLogos,3),

logo_selecta="logo_selecta4", GetRepetition(gLogos,4),

logo_selecta="logo_selecta5", GetRepetition(gLogos,5)

)

HTH

Lee

Also, I should have said, just copy my calculation and replace your own, as it should be what you need.

Lee

Hi Lee

God only knows, I've made the corrections, but keep getting the same error.

Az -|

Hi Wilse,

This may be stupid, but....

What is the result of your calc ? Text, number, Image,...

Hi DI LUCA

I would like it to be an image...

I wanted to create

A field with 5 radio/checkboxes, that represent my 5 clients.

Once selected, say button 4, this would tell my layout to use "clients4" logo.

I have stored these logos in a repeating container, so far so good.

I have defined my "logo_selecta" field with radio buttons and made it a member of a value list (not sure if this is right?) where I have defined a value list, with the names of my five clients.... with me so far?

What I can't get right is the calculation to use "client4's" logo after clicking the radio button.

I think I may have bitten off more than I can proverbially chew!.. oops

I have tried the scripts above, but none of them work properly... or maybe it's me?

Is this enough detail?

Az :-(

You want it to be an image, but did you define your calc to be "image". Don't take me for a fool. It happens...

Yet another mistake...

g_image ----> global fied.

Hi Az,

Here is a little sample file (I tried to use your field names and descriptions),

HTH

Lee

Sample4AZ.fp5.zip

..."calculation result is a container"

is this the correct thing to do?

Az

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Lee Smith, c'mon down

It works at treat!, same time tomorrow, for my next project?

Thanks everyone, djgogi, DI LUCA

So...what was the problem ?

And what are the Prizes

ooops...

The problem was, I hadn't correctly specified the value list name.

As for the prize, well you get the chance to answer this questions... lol

Is it possible to have a radio button, that will carry it's selection through to 1 of 5 layouts?

ie

I have the a radio button allowing logos 1-5 to be choosen.

I would then like another radio button, with "choice" 1-5.

When I have finished entering other fields in the record, I currently click a button, that then goes to a "layout".

The button uses "go to layout" command, how can I control this so that if "choice" 3 is selected on the radio button, I can steer the user to "layout 3" instead of "go to layout"?

Is this possible easily, or is this like "pushing water uphill"?

Sorry for imposing.... again!

me again

Please ignore my last post, as I've managed with the help of this forum to sort this out.!

A surprise to even myself, my learning curve, has just got One step smaller!!

Thanks again everyone!