I am using FMP 7 on Windows XP.

Is there a way of exporting a list of my fields to a file?  I know I can 
print a list but I would prefer to send them to a file.

In article <9vCdnaRLspPwsOTfRVn-2Q@comcast.com>, 
NOlariveeslSPAM@yahoo.PLEASEcom says...
> I am using FMP 7 on Windows XP.
> 
> Is there a way of exporting a list of my fields to a file?  I know I can 
> print a list but I would prefer to send them to a file.

"Print" to a pdf file.

http://www.primopdf.com/

"42" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <9vCdnaRLspPwsOTfRVn-2Q@comcast.com>,
> NOlariveeslSPAM@yahoo.PLEASEcom says...
>> I am using FMP 7 on Windows XP.
>>
>> Is there a way of exporting a list of my fields to a file?  I know I can
>> print a list but I would prefer to send them to a file.
>
> "Print" to a pdf file.
>
> http://www.primopdf.com/

Thank you.  I will give it a try. 

Stephen Larivee said the following on 5/04/05 14:15:
> I am using FMP 7 on Windows XP.
> 
> Is there a way of exporting a list of my fields to a file?  I know I can 
> print a list but I would prefer to send them to a file.
> 
> 
> 
perform a find that finds only 1 record, then export all fields using 
the merge (.mer) format. That will give you a comma separated file with 
all your field names in the top row and the single found record in the 
second row, which you can delete.

Kent

Thanks.  I will try it


"KV" <noone@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Stephen Larivee said the following on 5/04/05 14:15:
>> I am using FMP 7 on Windows XP.
>>
>> Is there a way of exporting a list of my fields to a file?  I know I can 
>> print a list but I would prefer to send them to a file.
>>
>>
>>
> perform a find that finds only 1 record, then export all fields using the 
> merge (.mer) format. That will give you a comma separated file with all 
> your field names in the top row and the single found record in the second 
> row, which you can delete.
>
> Kent 

In article <XLfee.1222811$8l.863714@pd7tw1no>, KV
<noone@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Stephen Larivee said the following on 5/04/05 14:15:
> > I am using FMP 7 on Windows XP.
> > 
> > Is there a way of exporting a list of my fields to a file?  I know I can 
> > print a list but I would prefer to send them to a file.
> 
> perform a find that finds only 1 record, then export all fields using 
> the merge (.mer) format. That will give you a comma separated file with 
> all your field names in the top row and the single found record in the 
> second row, which you can delete.

If all you want is the field names, creat a new layout which has all
the fields on it (FileMaker can do this automatically) and then use the
FieldNames (dbname, layoutname) function in a calculation field with a
Text result.

Unless you've got LOTS of fields you'll have all the field names in one
text field which can be copy/pasted to wherever else you need them.

You could even write a script to loop through that field and get the
type of each field using the FieldType (dbname, fieldname) function.

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