tallboy755 Posted September 10, 2003 Posted September 10, 2003 Hello all. I have a question concerning relationships. I have not done too much with the whole relationship area of filemaker. I have a relationship that LeRetta help me setup. I have a layout with a calculation field from the other database on it. Is there any way that I can have it automaticly refresh. At this point it will one refresh if you click in the field or switch to a different layout or something. Considering it is a merge field the user won't be allowed into the field .......... any help would be appreciated Attached are the files ... the layout is "EnterStudents" and the field is "Info_Price" in the "DEV_Cadyware" file Desktop.zip
Kurt Knippel Posted September 10, 2003 Posted September 10, 2003 Well this is one of the problems with Filemaker is refreshing these kinds of related fields. Honestly it is a small price to pay for dynamic data display. One potential problem that I see is that it looks like DEV_Cadyware displays a calculate field from DEV_Package_Info which is calculated from fields in DEV_Cadyware. Since the record you are on in DEV_Cadyware is not comitted until you do something, those fields will not update until then. Add into this the normal portal refresh issues and you have a real problem. I would just suggest adding some kind of procedure for switching layouts behind the scenes so that it will update for the user. Give them a button that says "Update Total". This can switch to another layout and back.
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