Can't edit a field but have full access privileges?

[schofield]

Hello. I just updated my version of FMP to 10 today. There is a field in my database that previously I could edit the contents of but now am getting the message "You do not have privileges to modify..."

According to the Accounts and Privileges settings, the account I'm using should have full access to edit everything.

What am I missing?

Thank you very much for any assistance.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Welcome to FM Forums.

This sounds as if it might be caused by an OS level read only property. Close the file and then check its privileges at the OS level.

Steven

[schofield]

Thanks for your response. I guess next I have to figure out how to check the privileges at the OS level...

[schofield]

I am still working on this. Now what I think is happening is that the field I am trying to edit is a Calculated field. I could probably edit the field before because I was on such an old version of FMP. Now I can't edit the field according to the manual I have because it is a calculation field. Unfortunate because this will have a negative impact on our process... (The field, to explain, is a generated job number assigned when a new record is entered into the database. Sometimes a job will end up having two parts and what I used to do was duplicate the record and then change the suffix of the assigned job number to 2 instead of 1...)

[schofield]

So is it possible to edit contents from a calculated field?

[David Jondreau]

No it's not possible to edit a calculated field. And trying to would give you a different error message than what you reported in your original post.

You can make your field a text or number field with an auto-enter calculation.

[schofield]

Thanks for the information. Have a nice day!