How to put data into field of same name on many cards

[CAsba]

Hi,
On many of the cards in my project I have a header field, 'header', that displays the name of the User's business. Is there a way of putting the name (compnamex) into all the fields named 'header' in the project (some to be created at a future date) ?

[dunbarx]

CAsba

Not exactly sure how you are populating fields going forward, but there are two things you should experiment with.

1- Know that if you group a field and set its "backGroundbehavior" to "true" then every new card you create will also contain that field.

2- If you set the "sharedText" property of that field then every instance of that field on every card will be the same.

You can fool around with these sorts of things, setting and unsetting properties to see how things change.

Craig

[CAsba]

Thank you Craig, sounds like just what I needed.

[dunbarx]

CAsba.

There is much to play with when setting and unsetting the "sharedText" property. This goes all the way back to Hypercard.

Make a stack with a field. Group the field, and set the group backGroundbehavior to "true". Now set the sharedText of the field itself to "true". Put a word or two in that field.

Now make a few new cards. You will find that the field on each card has the same text.

Now set the sharedText of the field to false, and put different text in each field on each card. Cycling through the cards, you see that each field has its own text. Now set the sharedText to "true". You will see that each field now shares the text of the field on the card that was in front when you set that property. If you then set that property to "false" you will see that each field reverts back to its own individual text. The field "remembers" both values, and which one to display depending on the state of the sharedtext property.

With careful management, this has always been a very cool feature.

Craig

[CAsba]

Hi Craig,
That's great..I did it and it worked !
Many thanks.