A group in the area sent me the following message and I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before or has any recommendations as to where to point them in terms of correcting it. I think the main error lies in the first part - that when they click on 'add new name' they get an error message stating: "This field cannot be modified until "RECORD NUMBER" is given a valid value." The fact they can keep trying and get past the error message doesn't mean the problem is resolved, I imagine, and the ensuing errors described cascade from the first problem - I hope. They say this just started a couple days ago. The system is networked and they're using FM 4.1 and ebase v1.02. Thanks for any pointers. - Ted "the problem I'm having right now is that when I go to add a new name I get an error message telling me that no new name can be added until the Record Number field is filled in. This error message comes up 3 times, and then after it finally goes away, it takes you to a regular data entry screen for names. You type in everything, thinking that it's all fine and dandy, and then when you hit "add payments" in that screen and fill in all THAT data, after you hit "update status" it tells you that the record is not complete until you fill in certain monetary fields, which actually ARE ALREADY filled in. So, I have done this all a few times now, and then just deleted the records, totally puzzled. Some background: Yesterday I was running a lot of queries and exporting th edata and they were running fine. Yesterday a staff member was trying to add names after I'd left and he said he found "like 15 totally empty records," and he deleted them. When you go into the Design mode and look for the tab that explains the properties of the record number field, they are as they should be, that is, it is marked auto-number, and marked that one should not be able to manually enter the numbers." _______________________ Ted Fickes Environmental Law & Policy Center 35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 1300 Chicago, IL 60601 312-795-3724 312-795-3730 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make the List by subscribing to ELPC News at http://elpc.org/lists.htm The Midwest Environment Online at http://elpc.org ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
