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Here is a list of items to keep in mind when using Global Calculations. It was originally written by Ray Cologon back in 2007/2008 (and reposted around different blogs and here a few times)...but I believe most of it still applies to how it works today in the current versions of FileMaker. I'll repost with an update if I find out otherwise.

Originally Posted by Ray Cologon

1. A global calc will update automatically if it references a global field that is located in the same table and that field is edited by the

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From: Billonfilemaker - Bill Doerrfeld - One of my Favorite BlogsAttachment 2450

I find that I’m more productive developing in v11 primarily due to the following enhancements:

- Import, Copy/Paste Custom Functions
- Access scripts to edit directly from a layout
- Inspector consolidates key editing dialogs (although there are caveats mentioned below)
- Layout folders
- Fix of LeftWords ( GetFiledName ( Self ) ; 1 ) bug (may ...

Originally Posted by Ray Cologon 07-04-2006 10:21 PM

Welcome to the Café!

FileMaker does not support nesting of portals, so you're going to have to find a different way to display the information you have described. There are many options.

One would be to place a button in each portal row and set it to use the Go To Related Records[ ] command to display the related prints in a new window.

Another would be to provide a second portal alongside ...

Orginally Posted by KJOE 07-01-2007 05:01 AM

This is one in a series of Interface Design articles/discussions that we thought would be useful for developers to consider when designing a solution. Additional thoughts and techniques are welcome.

Security schema
A security schema is the part of the design specifications according to which the developer defines access to different parts of the solution for different users. Filemaker 7 and 8 allow for a very granular approach ...

Posted by KJOE 09-17-2008 10:34 AM

First the accounts and privileges must be in order.

It is possible to arrange field level access based on privilege sets, but only for all records in a table, not for individual fields when a condition is met.

So in this case you need to make an extra table with the 'sensitive' data in it. These would be related one-to-one to the main table. In the main table, the "private" check-box is located and the access to ...