Summary
REAL Bug: Adding [:] in a table name, brakes MERGE FIELD relationship
Description of the issue
Adding ':' in the table name is not prohibited by any Filemaker warning...Doing so, all seems to work fine, except MERGE FIELD: Inserting merged field in a layout as: , continue to show instead of the field's data ... After to have burnt my brain per hours, and pray all Gods known, I have fixed this trouble.Why I know this is a real bug?I have added ':' in some of table names of my Database, thinking to present its better later in my development.Then, all merged fields I have put in my layouts before the add of the [:] was working well, only new merged fields added AFTER the add didn't work...Worth ! Just the edition of a merged field by double-click on it, then validate it, was enough to "brake" it and show the even in "browse" mode... DO NOT PUT ':' IN TABLE NAME
inick06:
Thank you for your post.
Our Development and Software Quality Assurance (Testing) department are aware of this issue, but no additional information is available at this time. Until this is changed, remove any colons from table names.
TSGal
FileMaker, Inc.