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Need help with invoicing DB, how do I control product balance? DB

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Please forgive me if I am a bit confusing, I will try to make myself the best understandable as possible.

I am starting a new data base set that will do the invoicing for a small company with some 800 different products.

So far I have 3 databases:

1) Products DB - (CadastroProdutos.fp5) Here I create one record for each product. I have name of product, ID, weight, price, etc...

2) Records DB - (Registros.fp5) Here I a relationship with Products DB, as I create a new record and type the product ID, the filemaker app imports Name of product, weight, price, etc from Products DB...

3) Invoicing DB - (ControlePedidos.fp5) Here I have a relationship with Records DB, and a portal is on the main interface, allowing the creation of new records inside RECORDS DB. So I create a new record in Records DB directly as I type data in Invoicing DB. I found this way a good way of having records separately, so if I want to find out how many pieces of one specific item I have sold, I can do a search in Records DB and find the items independently from each record in Invoicing.

I also tried to create a field in Products DB for "Products in" (Entrou no estoque), "Products out" (Saiu do estoque) and "Products Balance" (Temos em estoque), a way of checking out how many pieces of each product I have.

But I am stuck right now. Can someone help me creating the relationships in between Products DB and Records DB so that each time I insert a new record in, the correct amount of products is deducted in Products DB record?

Thank you

Bernardo Höhl

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

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  • 2 weeks later...

Can I suggest that you try to get a download of the FileMaker Solution framework...it may still be on the Filemaker web site...if not sorry i dont know for sure where to get it...But...it would be good to study(or just use as is)so you would understand easilly how they build a basic structure for the kind of thing you are doing.It will answer many questions all at once!

Hope this proves helpful

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