I have a database with a 1000 records and get the results fine and dandy but would like to exclude the records that have a blank or empty value in a particular field. How do I do that? Or maybe my question is is there a way to check if a value is present?

-db=SchoolsMaster.fp5, -lay=formview, -sortfield=school, -sortorder=accend, -max=all,-findall

I think the -op== command is used but don't understand how to format this.

Thank you

Kent

[ January 17, 2002: Message edited by: Turansky ]

You can use:

[FMP-Record]

[FMP-If: myfield .neq.] Display fields from record [/FMP-If]

[/FMP-Record]

Hope this helps.

Garry

Another option:

Make your original link something like:

-db=SchoolsMaster.fp5&-lay=formview&-sortfield=school&-sortorder=ascend&-max=all&-Op=eq&Fieldname=&-find

Garry,

It worked perfect. Thank you

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The Bridge,

I tried what you said but that did not work. Let me also point out that I didn't fully explain what I was doing. If I could do it your way it might be less code for me. Which I always like. Thank you

This is what works now for me:

<select name="school" size="10">

[FMP-InlineAction: -db=Schools Master.fp5, -lay=form view, -sortfield=school, -sortorder=accend, -max=all,-findall] [FMP-Record][FMP-If: school .neq.]<OPTION VALUE=[FMP-field: school]>[FMP-field: school][/FMP-If]

[/FMP-Record]

[/FMP-InlineAction]

</select>

[ January 18, 2002: Message edited by: Turansky ]

Whoops... the problem was with me, not you. In my example, I used -Op=eq; it should be -Op=neq.

Here are the values the -Op tag accepts:

eq - equals

cn - contains

bw - begins with

ew - ends with

gt - greater than

gte - greater than or equal to

lt - less than

lte - less than or equal to

neq - not equal to

I notice you have -SortOrder=accend. This should be -SortOrder=ascend. Also, I'd recommend designing your databases with underscores in the names of fields and layouts instead of spaces.

Having said all that, your best bet may be to go with Garry's solution, since it actually works for you.

Hello The Bridge,

I gave that a try but still no success - it's still spitting out blank fields before it gets to the actual fields that have data. Any other solutions?

[FMP-InlineAction: -db=Schools_Master.fp5, -Op=neq, school=, -lay=form_view, -sortfield=School, -sortorder=ascend, -max=all, -findall]

Thank you

Kent

With the method by The Bridge, try -find not -findall; e.g:

[FMP-InlineAction: -db=Schools_Master.fp5, -Op=neq, school=, -lay=form_view, -sortfield=School, -sortorder=ascend, -max=all, -find]

A few ways to "skin-a-cat".

All the best.

Garry