I'm trying to write a script that will simply create and populate a new
portal row. When I run it, though, it fills all the fields in the new
row with "0" rather than the intended text.

===SCRIPT START===
Go to Portal Row [ Last, Select entire contents ]
Set Field [ worklog::Employee, worklog::Employee="Joe" ]
Set Field [ worklog::Work Description, worklog::Work
Description="Administrative" ]
Set Field [ worklog::Hours, worklog::Hours=.25 ]
===SCRIPT END===

Context: Worklog is used to track employee time. Employees enter their
time into Worklog through a portal.

FMP 6, Windows XP
FM Server 5.5

If anyone can offer any solutions, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Joseph

The second argument of Set Field is the actual value you are trying to
set. What you have as second argument is the equality comparison*
Your script should look like:
Go to Portal Row [ Last, Select entire contents ]
Set Field [ "worklog::Employee", "Joe" ]
Set Field [ "worklog::Work Description", "Administrative" ]
Set Field [ "worklog::Hours", "0.25" ] // assuming that you are setting
the Hours to be .25


Federico

* note that in some languages booleans are mapped to integers where
false->0 and true to any other value. Because worklog::Employee =/=
"Joe" the value set was the string "0" as a textual representation of
false

Federico,

Thank you! I have been working in a few different programming
languages, and I forgot how this worked in FMP.

Thanks again!
joseph