global fields

[stanley]

I realize this may be a RTFM question, but here goes:

On FM Server, I've got a search routine where users can build a list of selected items via a global field. It seems to me that there should be a conflict between users - i.e., if one user has selected an item, it should be selected for anyone else currently doing a search. It seems (I haven't had the time to do a real debug on this) to do this sometimes. Are global fields stored locally on the client machine? Are they stored on the server? I'm a bit confused.

thanks

Stanley

[Fitch]

Global fields are local.

The only time they might appear to behave otherwise is when a user first opens a file: they will see the value that was stored in the global field when the file was saved on a local machine, i.e. it was not being hosted by FileMaker Server. So all users will initially see the same data (or lack of data) in a global.

[stanley]

fitch:

Thanks

-Stanley