I work at a steel company that receives inquiries from customers re:
price, availability...etc. On this inquiry we need to show the
thickness of the steel the customer will accept. E.g., they will order
.500 gauge steel + or - .002 (which means they wil accept anything from
.498 to .502. Each of these gauges has an industry standard (with the
ocasional picky customer) but that tolerance varies from gauge to
gauge. What would be the best way to get those tolerances to show up in
each respective field? My thought is a calculation for both positive
and negative tolerances... perhaps
Case(gauge = .500; -.002; gauge = .375; -.015; etc...). Any other ideas
or suggestions? Thank you,
Steve
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Helpful Harry nom.de.plume.com> wrote:

It /does/ synchronize with the Address Book and iCal and it even does so
over dot-mac.

That would be a major reason for integrating those two applications in
FileMaker. It is already possible with iCal if you are willing to pay
the €49 the Cocoa plugin costs; the Address Book solution is scripting
only.

In article <1ihqif8.bo21o85xbdajN%%per@RQNNE.invalid>, per@RQNNE.invalid
(Per Rønne) wrote:

Helpful Harry nom.de.plume.com> wrote:

In article <1ihph96.xjog2b1159qcsN%%per@RQNNE.invalid>,
per@RQNNE.invalid (Per Rønne) wrote:

I don't know about direct access, but data can be swapped using
AppleScript and you could probably set that up via Automator to run at
specific time intervals.

I did download some example databases for FileMaker 5 and 7 that show
how to swap data between FileMaker and iCal, but I don't remember where
they came from. I got them via a Google search last year when I thought
I was going to have to do this sort of exchanging (in the end they
decided to just use iCal sharing under Mac OS X 10.5).

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Documentation in the FMServer 9 manual suggests that the 2-computer
setup is probably most efficient config., but gives NO idea of how to
do it in practice.
FMI seemingly have no Knowledge-Base docs on this either, strange. (I
did ask for assistance there).
We plan a set-up using IIS::FMS9 as a web-server host. I would like
feedback on best practices at the level of plugs, cables, NICs & admin
stuff, please.

I have FM9 Advanced, and I love the new script organization features.
That alone has made the upgrade worth it for me, as a DEVELOPER.

One of my clients, a company using more than 5, but less than 10
licenses, all currently 8.5, requested some features for their system
that would really benefit from the conditional layout formatting that
9.0 allows. We were discussing whether it was worthwhile for his
company to upgrade to 9.0. My client wanted to know what other new
features 9.0 offers. I don't really see anything else for regular users.
We don't use SQL.

He may end up deciding to upgrade, just for the conditional formatting
alone, but he's not sure that's enough to compell him.

Can anybody suggest any powerful new features that FM 9.0 offers, that
are of benefit to end users, that I am overlooking?

Is it permissible to transfer the license for a copy of Filemaker
Server from one person to another? In other words, if I buy a full
(not an upgrade) version of Server 9, can I transfer my old copy of
Server 8.5 to someone else, since I no longer have any use for it?

TIA
Lanse Stover

As is well known, FileMaker Ltd.'s new Bento database for Leopard
directly accesses Leopard's built-in Address Book and iCal.

Is there a way to do the same through FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced - on
Leopard?

Hello and Thank you for viewing and well... i can't believe I'm about
to ask this but I need the answer pretty fast and I can't seem to find
anythign this simple online.

I simple need to know how to format two fields for non-military time
and then use a start time and end time field to calc in a ... Hours
Worked field...

I know... it's sad.
Please help though...

Thanks again.
B