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Importing four fields into a fm field that is a list of checkboxes


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Hi people

I have a question. I've got five fields in this old database of mine in Clarisworks 4.0 format which I want to import into one field in filemaker that is a checkbox style value list.

Any idea of how to do this with no hassles?

Thanxs

Steve Griff

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You will need to import the five fields into five fields and then build your combined field with either a looping script or a stored calculation (it can be turned back into a text field and the other fields deleted as the last step). The calculation will look like:

CombinedField (calculation, text) =

Field 1 &

If(notIsEmpty(Field2), "

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