Copy paste not working

[kevs]

While is Save as box, I copy, then try to paste, does not work. It's as if FM just does not copy to clipboard. very weird.

[Søren Dyhr]

While is Save as box

Translation please, this is English way over my danish head! Meanwhile should it be said, that copy/paste should only be used for inter-applicational transfers, never inside a solution ...for that is Set Field[ made! ...only exeption I can think of is getting a preview into a containerfield.

--sd

[Lee Smith]

I agree with sd, (I think, not always easy to tell with him ), we need more information.

As a rule, it is best not to use Copy and Paste, perhaps you can explain what you are trying to accomplish and we can figure out a better way.

Lee

Edited September 14, 2007 by Guest

[kevs]

thanks, I'm in an photo application that is run by filemaker.

I'm making an estimate for client.

I do a file save and type in clients names. I copy this, in case I have to redo it, but when I actually to have to redo it, for the invoice, for example, it wont paste when I go to file, save again.

[Søren Dyhr]

I still don't get it, file save is very far from the way a database works, the metaphor belongs to wordprocessors or similar. But what it seems to be you are asking for is how to duplicate a estimate so it becomes a invoice instead ...well you certainly don't do it by copy and paste.

Estimate and Invoice are only an attribute from each other, but we need to know a little about how your solution is structured, i order to give some kind of answer! But often is it just two diffent layouts of the same two tables??

--sd

[Mark Hardee]

Translation please, this is English way over my danish head! Meanwhile should it be said, that copy/paste should only be used for inter-applicational transfers, never inside a solution ...for that is Set Field[ made! ...only exeption I can think of is getting a preview into a containerfield.

--sd

I'm also having an issue with this..

Scenario: daily used database importing storefront-generated reports of daily orders. The reports all contain a URL for a datafile (usually excel).. reports are imported into database (orders) and client datafile is a url link to the data.

Currently, I have to "wash" the url field, copy to clipboard, open url via script, paste in the URL, that opens a browser, the file is saved. Then the file is imported into another table and the process continues for each order..

I can do this once and then the keyboard controls stop working.. that is Command-C will no longer function - but menu command (Edit-Copy) will work..

FMPro 9.0v1...

[Søren Dyhr]

Currently, I have to "wash" the url field, copy to clipboard, open url via script, paste in the URL, that opens a browser, the file is saved

Why is the pasteboard used at all, what format is report in?? A textual report can be imported to a text field, a calculation can sift out the url and use it as argument for:

http://www.filemaker.com/help/ScriptsRef-261.html

Please note, the command can if you press "specify" use the sifting calculation that digests the textual report.

But why use Safari or Firefox at all? I would guess you could use something like this:

http://www.briandunning.com/cf/565

Nothing requires the pasteboard here!

--sd

[kevs]

Here look at this:

I'm trying to copy the word test, wont copy, everything is greyed out.

[Søren Dyhr]

Where is the filemaker layout, the image you show isn't a dialog I recognize from filemaker, seems to be a save dialog from another tool ... Am I going nuts here? - I simply can't find anything like it in filemaker. Seems to be a resized save as dialog in Textedit... but the popup for fileformat is missing.

In a broader sence need's something in a filemaker document get subjected to actions, could be a field or a record, could be where the cursor reside at present if something should be unloaded, if a record is shown will all fields values be copied if you issue a copy, it seems like they are tab delimited when ported to a text editor...

I'm trying to copy the word test

From where to where - Why is this needed, what should be optained with it, filemaker have entirely different looking save or export dialogs?:?:?:??

--sd

[kevs]

soren, don't understand a word you write, but I'm in a photo software (written by a photo group) that is powered by filemaker.

[Lee Smith]

but I'm in a photo software (written by a photo group) that is powered by filemaker.

sd wrote what I was thinking.

This may have been written in FileMaker, but you apparently lack the password level so that you can copy and paste. Contact the maker of the solution and ask if there is a way for you to do this.

Lee

[comment]

IIUC, the complaint is about Copy and Paste menu items being disabled when one saves a file as...

FWIW, I see the same thing in version 8.5. But keyboard shortcuts do work.

[Søren Dyhr]

But when is that nessersary??

--sd

[comment]

I don't know about necessary, but it can be useful. The point is that it doesn't work as expected.

[kevs]

So that's the verdict, I don't have permission to copy

[comment]

I don't think that is the case. I have all the possible permissions here, and I see the same problem as you have described. I have never noticed it before, because I always use keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste.

[Fenton]

Yeah, that is kind of weird. I never noticed either, as I always use the command keys. And they are not grayed out in other apps.

[Mark Hardee]

Yeah, that is kind of weird. I never noticed either, as I always use the command keys. And they are not grayed out in other apps.

As was I in this case..

At any rate....

I did get it working.. I slept.. and then went back to my script.. I had everything correct EXCEPT for going to the correct layout and actually entering the field with the url in it..

Once I corrected this.. life is, once again, good..

Thanks for the efforts and sorry for getting folks confused... I was...

M

Edited September 18, 2007 by Guest
Fix some nasty typos...