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FILEMAKER PRO 17 PHONE NUMBER FORMAT UPDATE

The Data Migration Tool detects whether the cloned file has been opened and won’t work in this situation: a true clone is a file that has been saved as a clone but has never been opened by FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced.

Unfortunately you’re not able to use the Data Migration Tool to assist with this process.Ĭurrently the locale settings from the source file are migrated to the cloned file when using the Data Migration Tool which means you can’t use the Data Migration Tool to quickly migrate all data to a cloned copy which you have opened to set the default locale settings.

import your data from the original file to the newly cloned file.

When FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced opens a clone, the operating system’s current locale information is added to the clone.

open the clone on a system with the required regional formats you wish to use.

A cloned copy of a FileMaker Pro file contains all the contents of the original file with the exception of the record data and the default locale information.

save a clone of the file you wish to reset.

To reset the file locale settings you still need to perform the following actions: Whilst we can now programatically retrieve the file locale settings use the new Get(FileLocaleElements) function we still don’t have a method to programatically set or change the file locale settings. This explained why I was having issues with importing dates and numbers and evaluating the GetAsNumber ( Get (ApplicationVersion) ) function. character and the Number decimal separator was the, character. In this case these revealed that the file had a locale of Germany, the Date separator was the. Using these new functions I was able to determine the exact locale settings for the file I was working on. JSONGetElement ( Get(FileLocaleElements) "Num.Decimal" ) returns the decimal separator character for current file system locale. JSONGetElement ( Get(FileLocaleElements) "Date.Sep" ) returns the Date separator character for the current file locale. JSONGetElement ( Get(FileLocaleElements) "LocaleID.Name" ) returns the name of the current file locale. JSONGetElement ( Get(SystemLocaleElements) "Num.Decimal" ) returns the decimal separator character for the system locale. JSONGetElement ( Get(SystemLocaleElements) "Date.Sep" ) returns the Date separator character for the system locale. JSONGetElement ( Get(SystemLocaleElements) "LocaleID.Name" ) returns the name of the system locale. Here’s some other examples that you might find useful: JSONGetElement ( Get(SystemLocaleElements) "LocaleID.IDNum" ) = JSONGetElement ( Get(FileLocaleElements) "LocaleID.IDNum" ) If you want to compare the system locale with the file locale to see if they are the same you can use the following test: JSONGetElement ( Get(SystemLocaleElements) "Misc.Active" )

You can also use the JSONGetElement function to target particular JSON keys, including the Misc.Active key which indicates whether the active locale for the current user is the system’s locale (true) or the file’s locale (false): You can see the JSON object that is returned by using the Data Viewer to add these under the Watch tab. Using these 2 functions you can now compare the system locale settings with the current file locale settings to see if they are different. Get(FileLocaleElements) – returns a JSON object with information about the current file’s locale. Get(SystemLocaleElements) – returns a JSON object with information about the client system’s locale.

FILEMAKER PRO 17 PHONE NUMBER FORMAT UPDATE

The recently released FileMaker Pro 19.1.2 Update included 2 new Get functions which return information about the operating system’s locale and the current file’s locale: However you can still encounter issues when the file locale settings are different to the system locale settings as described above, most often when importing or exporting data and not having the correct source format set etc.Ĭlaris have recently provided a programatic way to determine the locale settings for a file so you can be more proactive about identifying if there is a difference between the file’s locale settings and your macOS/Windows system settings. Developers could also use the Set Use System Formats script step in their startup script to enable this option. This was a welcome change and solved most of the issues as far as displaying and entering dates, times and numbers. The default for this setting was changed to “Always use current system settings” with the release of the FileMaker Pro 8.0v2 update back in December 2005 – previous it was set to “Ask whenever settings are different”.