If the customer orders 38, but you have pricing for 30 or 40, you might want to get the price for 30 items: the next lower value. The "copy next higher value" option works just like its similarly named counterpart. It just copies the value from the next higher related record instead. People don't use these two options a lot, but they sometimes come in very handy.
The "use" option lets you specify any value you want to substitute for a missing related value. Tip: You can double-click the People table occurrence and change its name to Other Leads to better reflect its meaning in this table occurrence group. In the relationship graph, drag the State field from the People table to the Customers::State field. Now that the People table is in the graph, attaching it to the Customers table works just like every other relationship you've ever defined.
You can use this relationship like any other. For example, you could create a portal, as described in Figure Using the new table occurrence for a portal also couldn't be easier. Just switch to the Customers layout in Layout mode and add a new portal. Choose the Other Leads table occurrence, turn on the vertical scroll bar, and tell the portal to sort by Last Name, then First Name.
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SQL Hacks. Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition. The Attachments dialog box appears. The following figure shows the dialog box. Use the Look in list to navigate to the file or files that you want to attach to the record, select the file or files, and then click Open. You can select multiple files of any supported data type.
For a list of supported data types, see Attachments reference later in this article. In the Attachments dialog box, click OK to add the files to your table. Access adds the files to the field and increments the number that indicates attachments accordingly. The following figure shows a field with two images attached:.
The program associated with the file starts and opens the attached file — Excel files open in Excel, and so on. Some image files may open in Microsoft Windows Picture. If you want to do more than view the image, you can right-click the image and then click Edit. This starts the program that was used to create the file, if you have that program installed on your computer.
Save any changes to the file and close the parent program. Keep in mind that whenever you change an attached file, your changes are saved to the temporary Internet folder on your hard disk drive.
See the notes at the end of this section for more information about that folder. To save your changes permanently, return to Access and, in the Attachments dialog box, click OK. When you open an attached file in its parent program for viewing or editing, Access places a temporary copy of the file in a temporary folder. If you change the file and save your changes from within the parent program, Access saves your changes to the temporary copy.
When you return to Access and click OK to close the Attachments dialog box, Access prompts you to save the attached file again. Click Yes to write the changed file to your database, or click No to leave the file untouched in your database. The Settings dialog box appears. The folder path appears in the Temporary Internet Files folder section. When you need to use attachments with a form or report, you use the attachment control. The control renders image files automatically as you move among the records in a database.
If you attach other types of files, such as documents or drawings, the attachment control displays the icon that corresponds to the file type. For example, you see the PowerPoint icon when you attach a presentation, and so on. The control also allows you to browse any attached files and open the Attachments dialog box. If you open the dialog box from a form, you can add, remove, edit, and save attachments.
If you open the dialog box from a report, you can only save attachments to your hard disk drive or a network location, because reports are read-only by design. The steps in the following sections explain how to add an image control to a form or report, and how to scroll through records, attach files, and view your attachments. Remember that you can scroll through attachments only when a given record contains more than one attachment. The steps in this section explain how to add the attachment control to a form or report, and then bind the control to an Attachment field in an underlying table.
You follow the same steps when adding the attachment control to a form or a report. Before you start, remember that at least one of the tables in your database must have an attachment field.
For information on adding an attachment field, see Add an attachment field to a table earlier in this article. Because form and report design can be complex processes, the steps in these sections assume that you already have a database with at least one table and one form or report.
For information on creating tables, forms, or reports, see the following articles:. Create tables in a database. Create a form by using the Form tool. Create a simple report. In the Navigation Pane, right-click the form or report that you want to change and click Design View on the shortcut menu. The Field List pane appears and lists the fields in the table that provide the data for the form or report.
The list denotes an attachment field by making it expandable that is, you can click the plus or minus sign next to the field. The following figure shows a typical attachment field in the Field List pane. Drag the entire attachment field from the list to your form — the parent and child items — and drop it in the location that you want on your form.
Access places an attachment control on your form and binds the control to the table field for you. As needed, right-click the control and click Properties to display the property sheet for the control. Set or change the control properties to match the rest of your form or report. Save your changes, and then right-click the document tab and click either Form View or Report View to open the form or report for viewing.
If the underlying field contains image files, the control renders those files. The notes at the link above also state that the 'Attach Files' option is not compatible with WebDirect at all. Which brings me to an interesting realisation: when using web direct, code is executed on the client I suppose using javascript? BTW I notice an annoying thing : the script debugger does not seem to be able to 'step into' a script performed on the server.
After thinking about it, it makes sense, but it's annoying nonetheless. Yes - the data file script step fileIDs and variables etc that are used by the script running on server are only known to that server 'session'. It is possible to pass variables back to the client script that triggers a Perform Script on Server by having the client side script wait until the PSOS has completed and then use Get ScriptResult and the PSoS script having an Exit Script step with the data attached to it I don't fully know how WebDirect works, though with WebDirect, there is a lot of script steps that actually execute on server and just the result of those is presented back to the browser, which makes WebDirect sometimes feel very fast compared to FileMaker Pro as it doesn't do nearly as much data caching and processing client side as far as I understand.
Interesting, but the Exit script step seems to only allow output of a manually defined text result, nothing else. I tried that and it did not work so I made a false conclusion. My problem then seems to be that the file content is not output from the container.
So it looks like this variable storing only a pointer instead of the actual file contents, correct? Is there a way to store the actual file contents in a variable instead of the FileID? Then, using a REST micro-service, this code would work with any version of FileMaker 12 or later multiple attachments are no problem since we are not using FileMaker itself for email. In the screenshot below, I define the SMTP parameters as global variables in the FMP application itself for demo here , but these variables could just as easily be read from a simple configuration properties, or similar file.
The Send email layout is just a representation of something that would work. Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. So really it is just a link to the file, but I want to make it user friendly so it is easy for someone to add a file and just click on it at a later stage so it will bring up the file in the files related program.
I was trying to do it with a container field which works in a way where you can see the file, but now i want to be able to click on that file and it open up in its related program.
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