Referenced Table Trick

[Todd Geist]

Hello,

There is a trick that lets you use a table from another Referenced File in an ODBC Query. I have seen it before. It has something to do with creating a relationship between a local table and the external table.

Does anybody know how to get it to work?

Thanks

Todd

[Todd Geist]

Turns out that I was on the wrong track

Well I spent a whole day struggling with this, but I finally got it.

FILE REFERENCES behave differently for ODBC then they do for normal FileMaker operations

It turns out to be that the file reference between the two files must include the folders if the files are deployed in different folders on the server. This is not what I expected. For normal FileMaker stuff the references between all FileMaker files opened on the server work as though they are in the same folder regardless of what actual folder they are in

My two files were in different folders

so although this file path worked fine for normal FileMaker stuff..

file:cs_data.fp7

This one was necessary for the ODBC stuff.

file:../cs_data/cs_data.fp7

I guess this makes sense. BUT I sure wish this had been documented somewhere :

Todd