Using FM 7.0v3. I have a field which displays a date (dd/mm/yy)
calculated to be 3 months from the date of a report was created. Is
there a way to sort by day, then month, then year? Or do I need to
create seperate fields to store the day and then the month and year,

I am using FMP7 on an HP ZD-7000 laptop which has a numeric keyboard
next to the alpha keyboard like a desktop keyboard would have. The
problem I am encountering is with the enter/return key on the alpha
keyboard.

Is there not a way for an export in table format  to include the field names
so that they don't have to be entered if that table is opened in a
spreadsheet program such as Excel? I haven't been successful at finding a way
to do this and I find it hard to believe that such an ...

Dear group,
I am using FM Server 5.5 + FMP6.0 clients in a Windows environment
(2000/XP).
I am writing a log application in FileMaker. The log application

We are an all volunteer staff on an iMac 350, OS 9.2.2, 64MB Ram
(believe it or not). We use the iMac only for data functions and it
works well enough.
A very capable volunteer built a very capable db for us in FMP4 in

I have a date field "Expiration Date" and a computed value "Current Date".
Expiration Date is a date field with a value entered by the user. Current
Date is derived by Get (CurrentDate).
What I want to do is to produce a text value, either "Active" or "Expired"

Hi, I'm new to FM7, but I've used other database applications in the past .
. . . .
How do I use the SHOW CUSTOM DIALOG function to grab user input and then use
that to populate a query of six fields in one database?

As a student in a film archive, I?m trying to help out by creating some
useful new layouts for the film loan database, which currently is only
being used to hold information on various transactions.  Users of the
system are then cutting and pasting information from this database ...

Is it possible to customise the Delete function so you don't need to confirm
twice before a record is deleted?
Ernie

I am trying to customise CC Calendar for use with my database. I am using
the free version.
My problem is that I am trying to create records from my database via a
portal.

FMP7 WinXP
I have three tables. Houses, Books and HousesBooks
Houses has a list of houses, books a list of books. Each house might occur
in many books and each book may have many houses in it. THey come together

I used FM 7 auto convert an existing database of 5/6 files. I have
discovered this problem!
When I create a new record in another database, I used to add notes and then
click a button that would take me back to the main database.

Ive been using a standalone version 5.0 of FilemakerPro for years.  I am at
a new job now and my manager bought FMPro7 10 user pack and Server7. I
thought I could set it up on our server and the 8 computers that we use, but
something is not right.

In my database I have many drugs for each ID number. I want to print a
page that contains the ID number and all the drugs for that ID number.
Some IDs will have only a few drugs, others will have numberous.
I have it set so each drug prints on one line. No drug name is so long

In my bulk mail database I have a need to print out a summary sheet for all
the given zip codes I am mailing to at that particular time.
Like this (assuming zips 19300...19399)
19300 - 16