Hello. I've been searching for a good Filemaker forum to answer my question. So here I am.

Im trying to import from a .csv. I created a filemaker project whose fields names exactly match some of the fields in the .csv to be imported, unfortunately the 'view by: matching names' is greyed out. The other options are not greyed.

Why are they greyed out and how do i rectify?

repeat: the names in the project exactly match some of the names within the .csv. Not all of them (around 20% are matched up exactly).

The Filemaker version that im using is 6. I also tried it in developer 5.5, but still no dice. The platform that Im using is Windows 2000.

thanks.

Just to let everyone know, I contacted tech support since no one seemed to be able to answer my question.

After talking with them and tinkering around I came to the conclusion that the 'matching names' option is only avaiable when importing a merge or filemaker pro file. In order to import from a .csv, you need to manually match up the field names a create a custom import order.

In Version 7 of FMP, you can use the 'ignore first record (field names)' option in order to import the .csv file using the matching names.

FMPv6 or earlier doesn't support that.

How about if you opened it first with Excel, then matched names, then changed it back to .csv. Would it keep the order? I don't know, but might be worth a try.

What Fenton suggests does work. For whatever reason FM treats a CSV differently than a .Mer file. If the file is .mer, matching names work, so just change the name back.

Steve