On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Gary (Lists) wrote: > "Mark Lively" wrote: > >> In lower versions it was >> >> get cell "table::address" of current record >> >> A quick test-a-roni and it seems to work in 8. >> >> FMP people did a great job in a script from 3 working in 8. As with >> earlier version the field must be visible on the layout. > > Mark, does 'layout 0' still work in FM8? > (I weened myself from FM at FM 7.x) > > This was a way to set data/make records without the field needing > to be > present on the physical layout. I thought I read it "went away" > (officially) but was really "still there" (in AS). > Its there but it only seems to have the all the fields in the first table made. Usually I either did an import of data to populate the database or I used complex ugly calculations, or made a custom import layout with the germane fields. -Mark Who was late to the whole layout 0 game.