cglobe Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Hi - I'm a beginner at filemaker pro, and I was just wondering how can I edit the fields displayed in my report after I have created it? Say my report displayed the fields for Last Name, First Name, Organization, and Title. Now I want to take out the Title column and put in Location instead. How can I directly modify that without having to start over with a new layout? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Go to that layout manually; do Control-L to go into Layout Mode; now remove the field(s) you don't want, add other field(s) if you want them instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cglobe Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Thank you! One more question: My database was damaged, so I did the recovery action. However it forgot my record sorting setups for each layout (which I set when I created each layout). So when I went to Records > Sort Records and picked the order, it now applied to all my reports. Is there any way I can specify specfic sorting orders for different reports? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Hate to be a harbinger of bad news... Recover should be renamed "Scavenge" or "Salvage". It has one legitimate purpose: breaking into a ruined database so you can import the records FROM that database to a known good clone. A Recovered file should NEVER be used as an actual database file ever again. As you just discovered, bits and chunks of the structure get discarded as need be in order to rescue the data. Think of it as akin to those Jaws of Life for getting folks out of wrecked cars. Even if a Recovered file seems to be OK, chances are good that it is corrupted and will get worse and worse over time. Hope you have an old pre-crash backup. Otherwise you need to rebuild from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cglobe Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 So basically the only thing that is whole in the recovered files are the records? Oh gosh that sucks. Well better to know now than later. Lol I most likely would have kept using that recovered file and wondered what I was doing wrong. Thanks a bunch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cglobe Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Oh wait one last thing. Is there a proper way to close the program? Like usually I would save and then quit, but does Filemaker not require that extra step, so I can just directly hit exit when I'm done? Just double-checking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Yes; all changes are written to disk either immediately or very shortly after you make them, and to quit FileMaker always means ASKING to quit (first FileMaker flushes any unsaved changes to disk). This is different from, say, working in Microsoft Word where if you do not remember to save your changes for a long time and then the power goes out, you lose all your work. On the other hand, it means you don't get to change your mind about changes you did make and quit WITHOUT saving changes, either. You get used to it pretty quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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