relational fields

[KYC]

Using FM10. Have a Purchase Order file, Line Items for it, and a Work Order File. PO file has portal from line items. Customer wants Purchase items to appear on Work Order. Problem is, his PO numbers and WO numbers are calculations involving unit numbers. I have a portal in WO, linked to PO line items, and if I manually type in the WO number in a relation field tied to line items, it works. I need to convert the calculation for WO to a text or number field, or find a better way.

[bcooney]

The better way is to use auto-enter, meaningless, serial IDs. The shared LineItems file will have the foreign keys for PO and WO. If he wants to continue to use his calculated numbers, fine, show them, but don't use them as keys in relationships.