--On Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:58 am -0400 Beverly Voth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are referring to the RecordID that FileMaker creates for each > record, it is accessible with the function Status(CurrentRecordID) in > FileMaker or -recid in CDML. I don't know what it is in AppleScript, but > you can get it there, too. > > As far as "using", it's unique enough if you're dealing within the > database, but shouldn't be used as a relationship key. It's NOT > sequential (as we think). > > Set up another field to auto-enter a serial number and pass that back. > This last step is exactly what I'm trying to do - But how do I pass it back in the response to a new record being created. When I use <@column ID> (assuming ID is the serial number field) it's blank. Regards Paul. --------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Hart IT Manager Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH. England. Tel: +44 (0)1223 245133/DDI 402394 Mobile: 07867 500598 Fax: +44 (0)1223 213556 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/personal/pdh/Go_For_it.html --------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
