I have a modest address database that I need to sort in alphabetical
order. The first sort priority is a "last name" field, then by the
"first name" field. However, in a number of cases, the last name field
is intentionally empty, which means that those records gets sorted to

Can you save a 'find' as you could in the old Microsoft Works database
program? In other words I need to go back on various occasions to a set of
records in order to do additional inserts. Can't that group of records which
has already been found be saved somewhere?

Hello, I would like to know if the following is possible, and if so, I would
be most grateful to be pointed in the right direction:
I have standard invoice and receipt pages that are used for several
different business activities. For each one of those activities, I use a

First , thank you Bill, Harry, LouLou and Numb. I appreciate the time you
took to reply. I did do some research on the FM Developer at FileMakers web
site. There is a pdf there that explains in more detail the differences
between the Dev version and FM Pro (what do ya call it , ...

I have created a booking form using Filemaker Pro 6
I have to create a date range from "start date" to "end date". I need this
to print out all days in between in order to calculate meals needed for a
trip. Can anyone help me?

Hmm, just realised if you set the system to (for example) 2005 and
opened it and then reset the system to 2003 (or 2004, depending when
you're reading this!) it will still work.
So... I have updated the script to include a start date - if the

hello peole,
I've been trying to solve this thing for some hours, and then I finally gave
up :)
I've this dbase of a school, with names and address of students and so on.

I am using the OpenURL script in FM 6.0 v4 on Mac OS X 10.3.2 to open
a url stored in a field called "URL"  Everything works fine w/in
Filemaker AND when I test the functionality of instant web publishing
on my local mac, but when I moved the files to our filemaker database

Have a database of umpiring assignments. Within the database I have two
columns, one marked Plate and the other Bases.  I want to sort by the
umpire's name and send him his schedule. His name may appear in either Plate
or Bases column.  I want to send him a schedule chronologically ...

I've created what appears to be an endless loop in a calc field and need
help.  The problem:  A calculation was created that uses data from a related
field A; Related field A is itself a calc field that depends on data from
related field B in a third table.  Somewhere in the mix ...

My latest FMP solution is a little online bookshop manager that
involves exporting XML through an XSL stylesheet to create some static
HTML pages, for example one page per record. Naturally, I want to
rename each file using some local field value. This works great using

I would like to launch a Filemaker Program as part of starting up Mac OS X
3. (Panther)
What happens is that it gets so far and then tells me that FM needs my
assistance and the launch needs to be completed manually.

I need to set up a system to read the magnetic stripe on the back of our
IDs. What plugins are available for this and can anyone suggest vendors for
the hardware reader?
Thanks.

FMP 5.5, FM Server 5.5, Windows 2000/XP
I need to create a script that:
- Automatically find records matching criteria1
- Enters find mode and let the user select a second criteria

  This is a quite newbie question.
  I only wish to fit a list of values, initially empty, with
autoincremented numbers, whose values would come from a field value, to
another field value.