Tracking of Date and Server Date

[Sanjai]

Hi,

My application downloads some data from other datasources. The data should be downloaded only once in a day and by the first user who logs on to the application. I can think that I can store the date of download. When the user logs in to the application, I would check if the date matches current date. If yes, I would not download it again. To store the date, I cannot use a global field because it gets initialized everytime whenever client closes the application on his/her workstation.

Is there any other solution where I can store the date of download so that I can check this date from each client?

My second question is, the status(currentdate) shows the date of workstation. Can we use the date which is on the machine where fmserver is running?

Thanks,

--Sanjay

[Vaughan]

Second question first: not in FMP 6 and earlier. FMP 7 has the ability to reference the date and time fof the host computer.

First question: look into a preferences file. This is a table with just one record and linked to other tables through a cartesian join (or a constant relationship in FMP 6 and earlier).

[Sanjai]

Thanks Vaughan, this would help.

--Sanjai