Clairvoyance

[Baylah]

Hi All,

I know many of you are aware of the "Clairvoyance" scipt from the Sciptology book as I have seen reference to it here before. IN one of my databases that was originally developed in FMP 6 I used Clairvoyance and loved it. I am in the process of developing a new DB in version 7 and no matter how hard I try I cannot seem to make it work. Everything seems to be identical to what I did in the other application, but it just doesn;t work. I don;t get the parsed name results in the portal, and even though I do get a NAME MATCH in the portal, if I click (the script is apprpriate) on it, it will not paste it (set field) into the target field. I am so frustrated right now!

Has anyone had any experience similar or give any advice to a trap I might be missing. Like I said....Everything seems to be identical to the origianl use. I have even gone so far as to make sure that I am using the same field names, relationship names, etc...I just can;t figure out what I am missing. I am tempted to try developing this in 6 and then converting it!

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[Baylah]

Just an afterthought......Does anyone know why FileMaker has never developed TYPE AS YOU GO technology? It would be so useful, if a field could be defined as TAYG. Could you imagine how much cleaner we could keep data input......I have asked FileMAker directly, but they are reluctant to answer. I can;t imagine that it can't be done.

Steve

[Reed]

Can you post your file here? I have made several portals that are filtered this way in v7, and there are a few different ways to do it.

If you post the file, I could take a look to see if something's missing.

Dana

[Baylah]

Hey Reed,

You beat me to it. But I found the problem and was just about to re-post. I don;t want to admit it to the world, but I had a syntax error in something I thought I had checked a hundred times. UGH, how frustrating was that.

Steve