I Have read some topics on "Set Field By Name" but the forums wont let me search for that specifically because the words are not big enough I guess. I'm pretty new to filemaker and basically teaching myself so I appreciate any help.

Here is what I am trying to do:

I have a table called "Bookings" with a field called "Seat" and another table "Seatmap" with all the seats as fields named for there assignments. All the seat fields are set to be "O" to show that they are available.

What I want to do is be able to type "13A" into the seat field. Then using a script trigger that starts when I exit the field have it go to the seatmap and replaces O with X in the field named 13A.

After the seat number is typed in and I click enter and this script runs:

>commit record/request

>go the related record [show only related records; From Table "Seatmap"...]

>Set Field By Name [bookings::Seat; "X"]

The script runs and get as far as displaying the seatmap, but does not change the field from an O to an X.

What am I doing wrong? Or am I not even close?

I am not to good when it comes to the fancy terminology of filemaker.

Thanks for the help.

I have a table called "Bookings" with a field called "Seat" and another table "Seatmap" with all the seats as fields named for there assignments.

Woah, hold it right there. Seats should be related records, not fields.

Well, I wanted to point you to a similar thread here:

http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/77277-seat-assignments-reservation-system/page__p__362805

but it turns it is your own. So that would be my answer to your question:

What am I doing wrong?

Yup. One of the principles of databases is that if things are hard or complicated, then it's probably not done right. The whole point of relational design is to simplify things.

That's not quite what I meant by "doing wrong"...

OK So I set up so each seat is its own record in a table called seats. Seach record has a field for the Seat assignment, what class of service it is, status (to show whether or not its occupie), flight/date its for etc.... So is there a way I can set up a layout in filemaker to show it in the form of a map? For instance set up a layout that shows the contents of the the status field for each seat? I want to have one layout for each flight, and have the status field for each seat be positioned on the sceen where it would be on the aircraft.

Exapmple:

123

A OOO

B OOX

C OOO

D OXX

E OOO

F OOO

123

Is there a way of doing this?

each record has a field for ... status (to show whether or not its occupie)

Sorry, I am not going to do a replay of the other thread here.

WOOOPS i posted on the wrong thing. I'm new to this. my bad