Hi Barrie

Glad that helped. As I noted, though, I almost never allow creation of  
related records this way. I go for the kludgy (or perhaps not so  
kludgy) scripted method to give me more control over the process...  
But perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned. With all the great features that  
have been added to Filemaker in recent years (control over record  
commit; event triggers; etc.) there are probably other ways to get  
more control over the new records that users create.

Steve


On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Barrie Phillips wrote:

> Steve, thanks for knocking the blinders off! I don't know why I  
> didn't see it, but I don't really need to use the concatenated field  
> anyplace. I can instead use the 'person' ID number as the match  
> field and determine 'current' status by inspection of the  
> appropriate field to make sure I am looking only at current records.  
> Auto-creation works fine now, and I don't have to put up with a  
> kludgy fix to accomplish related record creation.
>
> Thanks so much for the help.
>
> Barrie