hey all

I am fairly new to filemaker and I am wondering if anybody can help me,

what I am trying to do is take text that is in a field in one database

and put it in another field in a different database, but I just want it to

happen when a user clicks a button

thanks in advance

You'll have to use the scriptmaker...

Assign the script to select the field, copy, then perform a script on the other database which will pass the copied text to the right field and paste.

I'm new to this stuff as well, but a lot of this stuff moving between databases requires a script on one database to interact with another script in another database.

Good luck, maybe someone else can explain it explicitly.

Use Set Field instead of Copy/Paste and either set the text to a global and then go to your other file and set the field with the global's data or, if you have a relationship between the records, just Set Field [tableB::textfield; tableA::textfield].

thanks a million