>I'm resigned to the not-very-pretty workaround of using request/find >commands in the place of "every record whose". I've seen the other >recommended solutions, including some promising stuff in AS Studio from >Christopher Green, but I'm still too mired in FaceSpan 3.5 to attempt the >jump to AS Studio. > I'm guessing that you've seen so AS Studio apps that "help" FMP and that you are using FaceSpan to do similar stuff? Have you thought of using FMP itself as the helper application? I design helper databases that are used to act as interfaces for the databases. They don't store data - they simply act as an aid to users, eg., a dialog box/gui/widget. You can pass info into global fields in the widget which store the information needed for the job at hand. FMP has good support for AppleScript so you can get the widget to do all sorts of stuff - just like FaceSpan or ASStudio. The widget database can have relationships to the "proper" databases, so you're "every record whose" problem is a lightning fast "Show Related Record". Very handy for complex data entry situations, they can act just like a pop-up window. -- -- Malcolm Fitzgerald [log in to unmask] Database Manager http://www.asauthors.org The Australian Society of Authors ph: 02 93180877 fax: 02 93180530