Hi,
I'm working my way through some nuances of T.O.'s and globals (on FM Server). I have 3 tables (for film/vfx shot tracking): shots, assets, and asset costs. Shots has a field of foreign keys that points to assets, the user can select what assets appear in a shot. A portal nicely reveals the selection. Then there are asset costs, which are provided by a vendor. The vendor's bid version is stored in the asset costs table, so a particular asset will show up each time a new bid is supplied by the vendor, just with a new version number. The goal is for the portal to list the asset name, the current bid amount, and the previous bid amount.
My question is, where do I keep the version numbers for currentBid and prevBid? Are they globals in the shots table? Or a globals table? We also have a ShotCosts table that is used the same way as the AssetCosts table, i.e. every new bid version a new set of shot costs are added to that table, and I can tally up current and previous bid total costs or per-shot costs.
Where things are not working as expected is if I place my globals on the shots table. Because of relationship constraints, I have to create separate TO's for current and previous bid versions. But what I would prefer is to have these two globals available to both the AssetCosts as well as the ShotCosts. Is this a feature of globals in a server environment, that a Shots portal won't find any matching AssetCosts records?
