Import/Export Same File Filemaker 7

[surfincajun]

Hello all,

I am designing an invoicing system and would like all of the data to stay within one database. First the order is taken. The it is sent to a print file. Next it is sent to an order history file and customer history file.

I would like to be able to export the records from the invoices directly into a print table. Then from a print table to a order and customer history tables. Is there any way to accomplish this in Filemaker 7?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Josh

[ElDiablo]

Hello...

It's possible, you just need to think the other way...

If you can't export the data to your file, you can import it !

When you import data from a opened FileMaker file, FileMaker imports only selected records.

As it's well the case here, the effect is the same than an export.

Regards,

ElDiablo

[surfincajun]

Can anyone help me achieve my desired result. I have given up importing and exporting within the same file. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it.

[xochi]

It's fairly easy to import/export within the same file in FM7. Can you tell us exactly what you are doing? Maybe we can see where the mistake is...

[surfincajun]

I am trying to export records from one table inside my database and import them into another table without using an external file. Is this possible in Filemaker 7?

[-Queue-]

Isolate the records you want to 'export' and import them into your other table. No exporting is necessary.

[JIMBO]

I want to archive paid invoices. Is importing from Active file to Archive file the way to go? Can it be scripted ? I tried but the import dialogue said that I cannot import a file to itself.

[Søren Dyhr]

I tried but the import dialogue said that I cannot import a file to itself.

Give it another whirl ...it's posible!!

But -But! There is some unhealthy considerations going on here, why store redundant data??? The distinction of whether an itemline in an invoice is sold or not, doesn't justify making neither copying nor exporting the value inside the same file!!!

We're not talking of backups here, but merely data that changes status ...and this should be done on fieldlevel via a calcfield, like Comment does it here:

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/download.php?Number=161104

...or like i demonstrate in this thread, because the reasoning is the same:

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=159052

...and the thread kind of contiunes here:

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=159269

Please note what the end of last the thread turning import/exports between tables into a convenient measure, when you have to handle set/kit's of what also exists as single itemID's. So all in all does import between tables certainly have it's place ...it's just in your case it is" wrong"!

--sd

[JIMBO]

Thanks Soren for your reply. I'll have a sit and a think.

James