FMP 10 Advanced: in the script step "set variable", the only option to
define the variable name is to hardcode it.

Is there a way to use a calculation to define the variable name, as in
set field by name?
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On 11/30/2010 1:15 PM, Christoph Kaufmann wrote:
You can't set the variable name by calc... but you can set the
repetition number by calc, which is useful for creating something like
an array. Probably not what you were looking for, but I thought I'd
point it out just in case.


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Howard Schlossberg <howard (AT) nospam (DOT) fmprosolutions.com> wrote:

It did cross my mind; I decided against it because I'd had to prepare
for very huge repetition numbers - not because I need so many, but
because they would have to match account numbers that have 6 digits or
more.

Now I created an array in a global variable with a loop and use a custom
function to extract value #2 of a given line depending on value #1.
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Christoph Kaufmann wrote:

Like this?
http://www.supportgroup.com/explore/...ng-a-variable/

Vandar <vandar69 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

Yup. Thank you.

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"Christoph Kaufmann" <clk (AT) tele2 (DOT) ch> wrote

Sounds more like you need a new Table and use the Relationship link to
"extract value #2".

Helpful Harry )

On 2010-12-01 06:31:36 -0800, clk (AT) tele2 (DOT) ch (Christoph Kaufmann) said:

Repetition numbers are practically infinite, and so useful for
applications like storing and referencing data in large numbers of
them. If you have data in rep # 12345678, and more data in rep
#98765432 (to match different account numbers), the intervening reps
take up no memory and so don't contribute to the overhead of the
solution, or the speed of access to the reps.

Just something else to know about variable repetitions. Might be
useful someday.
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Your Name <your.name (AT) isp (DOT) com> wrote:

That exists and works, but performance is a problem. A list layout has
in every line a summary field that depends on a calc I can't store
because it uses related records.

I hoped that for this speficic report, I might be better off replacing
the time consuming part of that calc with a variable because variables
are calculated once only and stored locally afterwards.

In the meantime, I found CFs for the purpose at Brian Dunnings's.
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Lynn Allen <lynn (AT) NOT-semiotics (DOT) com> wrote:

Useful indeed, thank you. I begin to see there's more to repetitions
than "workaround for missing relational features in Filemaker pre 3"
:-)
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