Kurt Knippel Posted August 16, 2000 Posted August 16, 2000 quote: Originally posted by richshone: I have been designing an application for the music industry that allows all information necessary for artists touring around the world to be accessible in useful ways. So far I have been doing this with the intention of it being a separate file created for each artist (mostly because I originally designed it my personal use). At this point I am attempting to modify this to a multiple artist database so a management company can have all of their artists records in one file (with access privleges assigned for each artists' representatives). All of this is no problem except for one thing - I had originally created a contacts layout, listing important addresses/numbers related to the artist using global fields so they could be typed in once only. How should I modify these fields so they can be 'globally related' to a particular set of records and then have another set that is 'globally related' to another (all defined by "artist")? Do I need to use a calculation field of some sort (what would the calcualation be?) or is there a relational global function that will do this for me? Much appreciated for any advice... Globals are global per file. You would be best served by setting up a "Contacts" database which contains this information. ------------------ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Kurt Knippel Senior Filemaker Developer http://www.database-resources.com mailto:[email protected] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
richshone Posted August 17, 2000 Posted August 17, 2000 I have been designing an application for the music industry that allows all information necessary for artists touring around the world to be accessible in useful ways. So far I have been doing this with the intention of it being a separate file created for each artist (mostly because I originally designed it my personal use). At this point I am attempting to modify this to a multiple artist database so a management company can have all of their artists records in one file (with access privleges assigned for each artists' representatives). All of this is no problem except for one thing - I had originally created a contacts layout, listing important addresses/numbers related to the artist using global fields so they could be typed in once only. How should I modify these fields so they can be 'globally related' to a particular set of records and then have another set that is 'globally related' to another (all defined by "artist")? Do I need to use a calculation field of some sort (what would the calcualation be?) or is there a relational global function that will do this for me? Much appreciated for any advice...
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