Use an existing custom function in another file?

[Mike G]

I'm very new to FM7 so forgive ignorance if it shows. I downloaded the files from K-12 and the Course Tracker file has a custom function called numberFormat in it that automatically formats either a phone number field or a SSAN field or any other text field that you want to set up. It's shown as:

numberFormat ( phoneEmergency ; "(###) ###-####"; 1)

My question is since I don't have the developer version of FM7 can I somehow utilize this custom function in other files? If so, I don't have a clue how to find it or do it.

Thanks

[Reed]

You can't move the function to other files. You need FM Dev. to paste the function into another file. One option is to take the existing file, remove everything but the custom function, and build your file around it.

[Ender]

Or find someone with Developer to add the custom function to your solution.

[Fenton]

I believe that Ilyse Kazar at http://www.datatude.net has such a calculation in an auto-enter calculation; it doesn't have to be in a Custom Function, as it's not recursive. It's in the Tips/Downloads, Phone Format, get the 7 version.