Filemaker: Copy Global Variable from a Related Table?

Question

I have a parent table that contains a global variable named gStartDate.

In a child table I have placed a global variable with the identical name. It has a calculated value:

ParentTable::gStartDate

However, it appears that it never copies the date from ParentTable::gStartDate. How can I correct this?

Thanks in advance to all for any info.

Answer 1

Its sounds like you set the calculated field in the child table to use "global" storage. That isn't going to update unless you update the schema or create a new record in the child table.

What you want is to set the calculated field to in the child table to be "un-stored". That will update when it is needed. And when it does it will pull the correct result from the parent table.

See the image.