I fell in love with the net and all the compuiter teahcnology in the very early years and have loved it ever since, I have an IT Degree and Communications degree and will be working on my doctorate for the next five years, in bwetween I design websites, databases, Multimedia ...

Is there a function or technique for capturing the Custom menu
selection that a user makes?  That is, if a user selects from my
Reports custom menu the "Admissions Audit" item, can I somehow capture
that menu title in a variable?  I would then pass that variable into

Hi --
Any suggestions on getting rid of scripts that generate the
following ... "This script cannot be found or has been deleted." ...
Also, is this a pre-cursor for more corruptions? Any suggestions would

I have a problem doing the following:
I have a file with student records: Student name, Class, and Grade
I have classes A,B, C and D
I wand four calculated fields to display maximum grade of class A, maximum

I have a Mac 10.4 and a Mac OS9.
My partner has a newer Mac laptop (not sure which version but I'm sure
it is 10.4 or later)
I have an older database on the OS9 that I would like to port into

Can anyone recommend a FMP expert that can help develop a desktop
application for my Toronto based company?
We are looking for is someone who is FileMaker 9 or 10 certified
Experienced in a production development environment

FM 8.5
I have checked for previous posts but all are very old. Can anyone
advise me how to make filemaker open a layout to a definite size. I
know I can script this but then it means using a script button. I

did I miss anything or is sliding within portals just not possible?
If so, this does limit the usage of portals significantly. I use them
since it does permit to add new related records easily, but I do have to
create special layouts from the other end of the relation in order to

Is it possible to insert a image into a calculation field in FM Pro
8?
Thank you
Deepti

I am using FMP 10 on Windows XP.
I recently found an older file, probably done in FMP 7.  It was last used by
me in 2003.  I am trying to open it but not get past the password.  I have
tried my usuals but have not had any luck.  I have tried admin and no

I recently updated a client's Mac server from FMS8 to FMS10. (They
purchased a new server with OS X Server 10.6.)
I was very surprised to see just how different the FileMaker Server
setup and procedures are now. (A Java app?) I wasn't expecting such a

Hi am rather new to FM, using version 8.5 and have created a database
to track conflict resolution issues for a university. The two reports
I need are very easy subsummary reports. One by total service requests
such as Consultation, Mediation, etc. and the other by Total

I would like to build a simple database to store and organize
documents.
In particular I would need to organize hundreds of .pdf (scientific
publications)

I send you a newsletter to 654 addresses. I used to have Filemaker 8
hand the mails over to Eudora on OS 10.4. Problem came up on the new
machine with snow leopard, so I tried the new "send mail via smtp"
feature.

When I use Instant Web Publishing and I look up the maximum numbers of
connections (advanced options) it says '0'. How can I increase this
number? Or what am I doing wrong?
I use FilMaker Pro 8.