Automatic Data Entry

[Peter De Berdt]

On 27 Oct 2004, at 11:53, Kim Kohen wrote:

> G'day Peter
>
>> My guess would be Filemaker background (globals from Filemaker). I've
>> seen a lot of Filemaker developers trying to do this when switching to
>> another database system. It's not a good practice, that's for sure.
> ••••
> It's really common within the FileMaker community to use global fields 
> to
> store regularly used values or to create interface tricks that are not
> otherwise available.
>
True, filemaker uses globals to make up for the lack of object 
properties and in Filemaker 6 the lack of local variables.

> One of the most common uses is to create a relationship to a global to 
> allow
> portals to appear or disappear depending on the value of the 
> non-constant
> field. They're also often used as 'placeholders' in a calc field eg. 
> Have
> some HTML tags in a global and then calc it into some DB data for use 
> on a
> web page.
>
You can include the HTML tags in your compiled code or put it in true 
Valentina records.

> I know it appears strange to people who haven't done it, but then I 
> find it
> really strange that I can't create my own Primary Key.
>
Then Valentina 2 will rock your head :-)

Best regards

Peter De Berdt