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Friday, February 19, 2016

Duplication: Records, Tables

Duplicate a Record
Is there a way to Duplicate a Record so that I can add a new Employee to a Company? 
At the moment the Duplicate command only gives me a new Record with the three top Fields populated with identical data as the original. This doesn't help much.

Actually, that's is just what we need! An employee's data isn't the same as its company's the telephone numbers are his own the address is his own not the company's

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I think your approach to this issue is very wrong, you'll end up having wrong information. 

For example, if a company's address changes and you change it in the company's record and not in the employee's record you wouldn't know which one is the correct one and the same is vice-versa and the same with phone numbers, we'll end up with the same problem as in the old FileMaker, the whole purpose of the company/staff relation structure was primarily to avoid this, the fact that it gets you a quick link between company and staff for navigation is just a good side effect. 
Besides the fields in address and phone numbers is there just for that - to enter address and phone numbers not to fill it in with notes, notes should ONLY go in the notes field.

I am sorry, but I really feel very strong about this!


You are right when it's a Heimishe employee, whose home address is in the database anyway
However when you look at Record ID: 38827, you will see that they have 3 employees (and counting) whose address we do not need at all, In such a case, I would like the Duplicate Record command to also apply the following information in thet Fields: Address Type: "Look In Main Record", and in the Company / Staff Portal, the Association that is used in the original Record.

31/01/2013
Menasche Scharf

Ask FileMaker: Why is it not possible to duplicate an entire Table in FileMaker Pro?
In the Manage Database Dialogue Box, one can only duplicate Fields or Relationships - Tables cannot be duplicated.

22/05/2014
Menasche Scharf
Ask FileMaker How to prevent FileMaker Pro from assigning an automatic Unique Contact ID to a new Record that was created by Duplicating an existing Record, as I want the newly created Record to also Duplicate the Unique Contact ID.

Date:  16/11/2009
RFC # 252
MS
Can you please build in a safeguard which prevents duplicate addresses from being added to the database

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