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Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:03:58 -0500
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My suggestion was to use a filemaker script that has one step

goto related record [Show only related records]

Then have an applescript which is

Tell application "FileMaker Pro"
	do script "RelatedRecords"
	get every record of layout "Data Layout"
end tell

On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Joe Barwell wrote:

> Hello Mark,
>
> In FMP6, where a record has three related records via a
> portal from a child,
> your suggestion merely shows the first related record three
> times over, rather
> than each of the three separate related records' data, i.e.
> it's replicating the
> problem Bill described.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Joe
>
> Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Probably the best thing is to set up another layout as a
>> list view   with the contents of the portal.  Then go to
>> related records[showing   only related records]
>>
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Bill Steele wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to read information from a series of portal
>>> rows.   Applescript apparently knows nothing about
>>> related records.
>

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