Import mapping used to be a relatively simple matter. File to file, field
to field. Fields have now been replaced with tables in v7 so, I would
think, importing SHOULD map from table to table, field to field. First let
me say that I have been using FileMaker since version 2, so I am not a
FileMaker novice. However, I have only quite recently started using v7.
Now when I attempt an import, I find the import mapping is by relationship,
not by table. What is the prescribed import method if I want to import data
from one file to an updated version of the same file? Is there no global
file to file or even table to table import mapping option? If I import into
each relationship, will I not be importing duplicates for each relationship
of the same records within a given table into the updated file? Someone
please help me understand this particular aspect of this new FileMaker world
in which I sometimes find myself lost!

Thank you in advance for your replies.

Based upon my own, somewhat limited, experience.
To work out where the data is going. There is an active layout. The
layout is attached to a table occurrence and the table occurrence is a
copy of a table. The import goes into the last of these.

If you choose another fp7 file for your import then you get to choose
which table from that file you are going to import (in view of the first
bit of information it seems clear that you cannot import more than one
table at a time.

You can only imagine the hassle of trying to update a multi-table
database. It is going to have to be scripted and that is where my
experiences ends. I have only done this by hand when converting
solutions from earlier versions (Everything has to be converted to fp7
format first)


Al Partridge wrote:
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Dan
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