6 > 7 Repeating Fields Dead

[Richard Stum]

I just updated from 6.0 to 7.0. I have many documents that use repeating fields (portals are a mystery to me -- I'm an end user not a computer guru). All docs work fine, except one. It is basically an invoice document and the repeating fields aren't doing their look ups, except on the first line. I've been told the only way to fix this is to use Portals. Is there a work around?

[Chuck]

Without knowing more about the solution, it's difficult to suggest a solution, although it may require portals, but if it was working in 6, there's probably a way to make it work in 7. The only thing I can suggest is that you investigate the Extend function. It may be needed for what you want to do.

Chuck

[bruceR]

It's time to start using Filemaker; it went relational in 1995. Repeats present all kinds of problems. However, FM7 did nothing to break repeats and your statement is incorrect. Exend is not the solution for invoice type lookups. But you need to understand relationships to make either one work, so you may as well figure out the long term solution.

[-Queue-]

Actually, 7 did break some repeating capabilities. But they fixed those in v3.

[bruceR]

True; but not related to this problem though.

[Richard Stum]

-Queue- , I tried updating this 6.0 file with 7.0 v.3 with no success. This file has worked flawlessly since v. 4.0.

[transpower]

Please give us more information about your problem, such as how the repeating field repetitions are calculated.

[-Queue-]

Feel free to attach a Stuffed copy/clone so we can see your file structure also.

[Richard Stum]

Here is the problem file. Rename the JPG extension as FP7 (I don't have a full version of StuffIt).

[Richard Stum]

Here is the file with product number/description data (Supplies.fp7) which the KS Supply Orders file refers to. Change the name of the suffix from .jpg to .fp7.

[bruceR]

You need to compress the file before uploading. It only genertes an error: "The image

[bruceR]

Updating how? Did you clean up your file references? Did you run metadata magic on the file before converting? Did you read all the conversion documents? What do you expect people to do with this since you aren't supplying enough to even get the files to open correctly?

[-Queue-]

It works using 'Save target as' in IE.

The file definitely needs some reference cleaning. I think there are duplicate relationships that might be causing a problem also.