partial string relationships

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I have a portal from a media library database. The media library has a field that notes which project each tape in the library belings to. There is also a project database, in which there is a portal that lists all of the tapes from the media library that are for each particular project and is related by the library's project number field and the project detail's current project number. This works fine for tapes that have only one project number in the project field, but for tapes with, for example, "1001, 1002" in the project field, the tape will not be displayed in those project's portals. Is there a way to get them to be listed, possibly by looking for a partial string match? Thank you for any help.

[Kurt Knippel]

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I have a portal from a media library database. The media library has a field that notes which project each tape in the library belings to. There is also a project database, in which there is a portal that lists all of the tapes from the media library that are for each particular project and is related by the library's project number field and the project detail's current project number. This works fine for tapes that have only one project number in the project field, but for tapes with, for example, "1001, 1002" in the project field, the tape will not be displayed in those project's portals. Is there a way to get them to be listed, possibly by looking for a partial string match? Thank you for any help.

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What you can do is to reformat your ProjectID field into what is known as a multi-key. Instead of seperating the projectIDs with a comma, seperate them with a carriage return.

When Filemaker evaluates the relationship, it will look at each line of the keys for matching values.

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Kurt Knippel

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