Hi,

We recently purchased a biometric time clock EC205FP. The interface on this thing looks like it was made in 1950. So DOS looking it is sad. I'm considering setting up a filemaker database to put the info into instead of using the DOS looking thing they have.

The information is downloaded off the time clock via our network as a ASCII file. Then imported into their DOS looking database.

Question: Is it possible to import the ASCII file into a Filemaker database?

This would be so much nicer then the current interface we are forced to use. I all ready have a Production time database that could be used for this if I can import the ASCII file into it.

Can this be done or am I stuck in DOS interface land?

Thanks, Michael

It should be possible to import an ASCII file. How easy it is will depend on the data format of the file, but there is always a way.

Bob,

Thanks for the reply. Knowing this can be done I will now look into how the file is a actually formatted.

Thanks,

Michael

Hello,

This may or may not be relevant to other ASCII files but works on the file I have.........I did learn today that by right clicking on the ASCII file and selecting open with and choosing Filemaker it automatically creates a Filemaker database with all the information parsed into seperate fields, columns, and records(Way Cool). I did not know about this and thought I would share this with everyone here.

Michael