Issue name is a field which as a caridge return so it be like

June 2006

June 2006

of the ones i multi lined i made sure all the portal field were filled

as for the records their about 500 entries in my issues sent out and about 400 in records, but when i use the portal not Every record shows its assosiated issue sent out.

i think some data must have been lost i fear ill have to manually enter the mising data

I suggest you instead grab your backup. It will be easier than attempting to split some of the entries and re-entering others. You now know what to do - do it again on the raw data prior to your conversion attempt.

i did use my raw, liek a nubie i mad a back up of my company file but i edited the Raw data of the sent out

on a side note some shoud "Stickie" this thread its a great primer for relationships and potals

Hmmm, well it sounds like you'll have some data to clean up. Been there ... done it.

If not all Issues Sent are being shown on their respective Records layout, it may just mean that it didn't set the CompanyID in one of the two tables. Did you check to be sure it serialized them all properly? Because if your relationship is from Records::CompanyID = Issues Sent::CompanyID then it will work.

If you wish to clean up those multilines, we can do that ... but I'm still unclear on what the data looks like. If you multiline two records, there are several fields involved. But that should probably be another thread, something called, "Un-multilining multiple fields." We can do it but we must have specific field names and know the delimiter you used. Or did you just open a field, add a carriage return, and enter the next field's single entry all the way through the fields? If so, we can script a reversal for you.

NOTE: If you added the second record's data to each field, what did you do if the field was empty on the first record but had something on the second? Did you put a carriage return then add the entry?

LaRetta

Edited August 12, 200619 yr by Guest
Added Note

no field should be empty (unless i hadent finished entering the data manually in wich case its moot the true copy record hasnt been deleted)

any fields that were empty weir either place holder records or incomplete copies.

Any time a new records was multi lined they has issue name, volume, number, sent number, office from, and sent date

it was just a caridge return concatonation

Edited August 14, 200619 yr by Guest

mad a thread for the unmulti http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/179556/