I have several databases that I would like to link up with a central interface, before I put them all onto our filemaker server. But I do not have anyone who knows what I am talking about. Can you help???

I almost always setup a main menu file in any system I develop. I launch this file (or maybe a security file which then launches the main menu) and it contains buttons which runs scripts to load all the other files as needed.

Just start with a single file with buttons that open the other files. I will always do this by running a startup script in the remote file, rather than simply opening the file and leaving it up to the user as to what to do.

Kurt,

Any chance you can run that by me again, but give me the "Main Interfaces for DUMMIES" version?

1.) Create a new file called "MainMenu.fp5"

2.) For each of your hosted files (or sets of files)

Create a script in MainMenu with one step:

Perform Script [External, HostedFile]

This is the actual script which will open the remote file, and do something, typically it will take you to a layout in that file.

3.) Create a layout in MainMenu

4.) Create a button on this layout for each script created in step 2.

Thank you Kurt, you are the capt.