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    From Charles H. Sampson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 1 12:40:22 2018
    It's been some time since I set up a new database. I'm doing that now
    for a ridiculously simple database and I can't do it. The database is
    created but I can't create the layout I want.

    The database has all of three fields: a date, an amount, and a total (of
    the amounts). In layout mode everything looks good. I've put borders
    around the fields and made sure they're filled with white (against the
    gray of the "Enlightened" theme). When I switch to browse mode, the
    fields vanish. There are funny rectangles at the left, about an inch
    wide, that demark the body and footer of the layout, but no fields.
    Creating a new record has no visual effect, although the record count
    does increase by one.

    If I view the database as a table, the date and amount fields appear,
    but not the total. I have no control over the way the date and amount
    fields look.

    Any ideas?

    Filemaker 16 on an iMac.

    Charlie
    --
    Nobody in this country got rich on his own. You built a factory--good.
    But you moved your goods on roads we all paid for. You hired workers we
    all paid to educate. So keep a big hunk of the money from your factory.
    But take a hunk and pay it forward. Elizabeth Warren (paraphrased)

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  • From Howard Schlossberg@21:1/5 to Charles H. Sampson on Mon Oct 1 13:35:49 2018
    On 10/1/2018 12:40 PM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
    If I view the database as a table, the date and amount fields appear,
    but not the total. I have no control over the way the date and amount
    fields look.

    It would be great if there were somewhere we could see a screenshot of
    it in layout mode. Or you can email me by removing "nospam" from my
    email address.

    Howard

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Charles H. Sampson on Mon Oct 1 22:34:18 2018
    On 1-10-2018 21:40, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
    It's been some time since I set up a new database. I'm doing that now
    for a ridiculously simple database and I can't do it. The database is
    created but I can't create the layout I want.

    The database has all of three fields: a date, an amount, and a total (of
    the amounts). In layout mode everything looks good. I've put borders
    around the fields and made sure they're filled with white (against the
    gray of the "Enlightened" theme). When I switch to browse mode, the
    fields vanish. There are funny rectangles at the left, about an inch
    wide, that demark the body and footer of the layout, but no fields.
    Creating a new record has no visual effect, although the record count
    does increase by one.

    If I view the database as a table, the date and amount fields appear,
    but not the total. I have no control over the way the date and amount
    fields look.

    Any ideas?

    Filemaker 16 on an iMac.

    Charlie


    How is your total defined? Is it a calculated field? Do the fields it
    relies on actually contain anything? Since it totals something it should probably rely on a field (or more fields) that contains only numbers.
    Are those fields actually defined as numbers? Is the result returned a
    number? You say can't see it, but can you TAB into it as an empty field?
    Did you define the layout to be pointing to the correct tableOccurrance?

    Perhaps it is one of the above, Erik

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