I've got a table with three global fields; one a text field, the other two numeric fields. The database is hosted by Filemaker Pro 11. So far, no problem.

But I've noticed that a change to any of these three fields is not updated by either a) guests if the change is made on the host computer, or the host if changes are made on guest computers.

I've never seen any behavior like this in Filemaker before. In every other instance, a change made in one record is updated everywhere as soon as the change is committed. I can't imagine there's a database setting that would allow for this sort of behavior.

Anyone have any ideas?

If your file is shared, only the host's changes to global field data are saved. Changes are saved only when the file is closed.

Huh. That would explain it. Good to know for next year when I create a new version of the database.