combining files

[mleiser]

I've asked this before but was wondering if the answer changed now that fm10 is out. If I have an application consisting of 7 files interrelated, can I easily transform that into one file with all the relationships built in.

Mike

[Fenton]

I don't think this is ever going to happen. FileMaker could not interpret how you would want this arranged on the graph, even if it could manage to get the table occurrences. Also it would need to recreate the File References on-the-fly. It could not just assume that you wanted same-named local tables to be used for the external files' table occurrences. External files could have table occurrences on their graphs in a normal multi-file solution. (Not in my solutions, because I use anchor-buoy naming conventions, but it is certainly possible.)