I am working on a Meeting Minutes Database. It will:

- Have a list of members

- Create the Agenda

- Keep minutes from meeting

- Task list tracker from each meeting

- Email Agenda and Minutes to members

- Print PDF copies

At this stage I have a table "Meeting" and "Members" table. I also have a table called "Attendees".

The Meeting Table has fields:

- Meeting ID

- Purpose

- Date

- Venue

- Start Time

- Organisation

I want to be able to choose from the "Members" table those who will be attending the meeting and have them displayed in a list under the "Meeting" details. I have no real idea how to do this (although I would say a portal would be used ... not sure how).

I was thinking something like, selecting members names from a drop down list - once selected from the list their names would be displayed in the "Attendees" list under the meeting details .... can this be done - Maybe another way?

I just need a bit of help to get me going in the right direction.

Perhaps something like this might suit you:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/233897/

Before we help, we should ask if you belong to TechNet. If you don't, for a $99 subscription you have access to a bunch of professional databases developed by FileMaker. They used to sell and market them, but now they offer them free to TN members. One of the databases is FileMaker Meetings and it sounds like it will give you everything that you want.

Perhaps something like this might suit you:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/233897/

Thank you for this ..... I will learn a lot from this.

Trevor

Before we help, we should ask if you belong to TechNet. If you don't, for a $99 subscription you have access to a bunch of professional databases developed by FileMaker. They used to sell and market them, but now they offer them free to TN members. One of the databases is FileMaker Meetings and it sounds like it will give you everything that you want.

Yes I have seen this on my WWW search, and was tempted to purchase it (actually there is other software - not just Filemaker I can purchase online that will do simular to what I want), but I decided to try and do something myself first .... my Filemaker skills need upgrading and this is a project that I could sink my teeth into .... with a lot of help of course. If I find I can not do it, I can fall back on the online purchase.

I want it for our Church .... and thought if I can do something I could pass it onto others to use, or others could add to it, etc.

So for now I will take the first steps on this project ... I have found that the little I do know about Filemaker was learnt from such projects .... the first I started not knowing anything at all .... just needed to spend a lot of late nights and a bit of frustration learning …. but that is half the fun of it .... we are a strange lot.

Thanking you for your reply