Q: without going to a layout to create a new record.

[Charlih Chen]

As subject.

Is there a way to create a new record on a table?

I have a file called the PC Asset Management.fm7 which has two tables: Asset and Inventory.

There is layout called Inventory View that is based on Tabe: Inventory.

OK, here is the trciky part, another file called Peripheral Management.fm7 and I am trying to write a script to copy field(s) from Peripheral Management.fm7 to PC Asset Management.fm7 that is(are) in Inventory.

Problem:

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It seems that I am unable to write a script on Peripheral Management.fm7 as

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Go to Layout ["Inventory View"(Inventory)]

New Record/Request

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So I checked the discussion about "copy & paste" on

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/179607/

And tried the following script:

Copy Peripheral.field(s) to gField(s)

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Go to Layout ["Inventory View"(Inventory)] on PC Asset Management.fm7

New Record/Request

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Paste gField(s) into Inventory.field(s)

Commit Records/Requests

Copy Inventory Number to gInvNo

Go to Layout ["Peripheral View"(Peripheral Management)]

Paste gInvNo into Peripheral.field

Commit Records/Requests

As you can see the two lines between ??

Any suggestion to go to the Layout and add a new record in order to get the Max(Inventory Number)?

[Fitch]

If I understand you correctly, you want to run a script in the file "Peripheral Management" that creates a new record in the file "PC Asset Management."

The Peripheral file should have the following:

- a file reference to PC Asset

- a table occurrence (TO) based on that file ref

- a layout based on that TO

This should enable you to go to the layout and create a new record etc. in your script.

PS: I hope that you are using the Set Field script step rather than copy and paste.

[Søren Dyhr]

- a layout based on that TO

Not nessersary the last of your branches, if you have a multicriteria relation with "allow creatio...." turned on, could you via a script just write a dummy value. Then are all the fields you need to copy over criterias for the relation except for the dummy field a relation away.

--sd