Import

[Scott Loeb]

Is it better to export or import? I have a file that imports some records and after I leave, the records are deleted so that the same records are not entered 2 times. How do you overwrite records when new info is recorded, because it always imports a new record everytime I get into that file?

[LiveOak]

Sorry, that was all pretty incomprehensible. How about some background on what you are doing.

Sounds like a Zen question, "Is it better to turn right or left?"

-bd

[Scott Loeb]

Sorry,

Some records from a filemaker file are imported to another filemaker file. Everytime I go to the second filemaker file the opening script imports the records from filemaker file 1. Instead of overwriting the same records, they create new records. So two records are the same?

Is that any more comprehensable

[ryanzon]

Sorry, but i don't get it..

What's the purpose of importing from file A to file B, just to have same/exact records for both file? Are those files different from each other? or identical?

Are you doing this to create a backup? Why not use relationships? It's easier and i think... a lot faster.

[LiveOak]

Much better. You have multiple options in the import dialog: 1) add records, 2) replace the current found set, and 3) update matching records based upon match fields you have defined (either adding the remainder of the non-matching imported records or not). Have you set up the import operation per option 3) with the correct match fields?

-bd

[Scott Loeb]

THanks for the help, I don't know what I'm talking about just learning