tripdragon Posted June 11, 2004 Posted June 11, 2004 Hi, I need a field to have more than one item in it. I have a basic record as one long line but at times some lines need to be broken up as separate boxes still in a records line. Much like an HTML Table and table rows and such. Can file maker do this dynamicly with tab delimented files? tablebreak.zip
QuinTech Posted June 11, 2004 Posted June 11, 2004 What exactly do you mean, "separate boxes?" Like <html> tags </html>? What type of "breaks" are you looking for within this field? Text fields can use returns, tabs, and several other types of characters that could be considered breaks.
tripdragon Posted June 11, 2004 Author Posted June 11, 2004 I attached a file above that explains it better.
MoonShadow Posted June 12, 2004 Posted June 12, 2004 You can import your text into one holding field and then use script to either split the text to multilines within one field in each record or split the text easily into separate fields or even create related records. What you can not do is import one text field directly into separate fields. You must import - then use script through the imported found set to manipulate the data.
The Shadow Posted June 12, 2004 Posted June 12, 2004 Repeating fields might also give you the graphical layout you want. They can be displayed as a column or row on your layout.
tripdragon Posted June 14, 2004 Author Posted June 14, 2004 those two ideas sound good. But I am not to adap with script yet. Would it be something like, If new record has tabs make new break at each tab else do nothing repeat till end of line end if Something like that ??
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