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- From: srussell@cie.uoregon.edu (Steven Russell)
- Subject: Another FileMaker Pro question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.090939.14131@nntp.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 09:09:39 GMT
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- charlesa@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Charles Albrecht) writes:
- >The function you've probably written is: Today - FromDate
- > ^^^^^ (Today is a FMPro function)
- >If you define this as a number, FM Pro will beep at you and give you
- >a stern warning that the function will return a value of type "date." If
- >you indicate that you do want to define it as a number, FileMaker will
- >gladly allow you to do it, and should give you what you're looking for.
-
- I'll be darned, you are right. I took the stern warning too
- seriously, and didn't attempt to use the number result. Charles,
- thanks for the help! Thanks also to Brian Schipper, who suggested the
- same solution.
-
- Ok, here's another question: I want to be able to create a field
- that adds values from two other fields. If field "A" contains the
- value 20, and field "B" contains 17, I want my proposed field to
- become 37. So far, this is trivial, but I would like this same field
- to be selectable for manual data entry if both fields "A" and "B" are
- undefined. If this is not possible, I will settle for having the
- field be selectable for data entry without depending on the values in
- fields "A" and "B". Is this possible, or am I asking too much? I've
- looked through the manual for help with this, but haven't found a way
- to make it work.
-
- --
- -Steven Russell
- srussell@uoneuro.uoregon.edu
-
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