exporting field names

[michele]

Ok, I must be missing something here.

I want to export my database as a tab-separated text file with field names included. So that I can import it into another non-filemaker document as I do with Access databases.

Is this impossible in Filemaker?

Thankyou for reading and eventually answering my question.

[BobWeaver]

If you want to export the field names, you have to export in merge format. This is a comma delimited format that includes a first record of field names. If you must have tab delimited, you can add a record to your file before you export it, that has the field names. Sort it in such a way that this field name record will be the first in the found set, export it, and then delete this record from the database when you are finished.

[michele]

Thankyou Bob

[Steven H. Blackwell]

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Originally posted by michele:

Ok, I must be missing something here.

I want to export my database as a tab-separated text file with field names included. So that I can import it into another non-filemaker document as I do with Access databases.

Is this impossible in Filemaker?

Thankyou for reading and eventually answering my question.

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If you are on AMc OS, you can also accomplish this process by use of an AppleScript applet to call out all the fields with their various data in a complex array.

That array can then be set into a document such sa MS Word or AppleWorks/ClarisWorks, or any pther scriptable text editor.

HTH

Olad Advance Man