Hi Richard, What way do you have of navigating to a record on a list layout that won't load it? The script-trigger version works with 'on record load', and is pretty much a step-by-step recipe. Mike On 30/01/11 7:19 PM, Richard S. Russell wrote: > > On 2011 Jan 30, at 7:21, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > >> Method employing a Web Viewer to trigger a global variable that you >> can use: >> http://my.advisor.com/doc/19332 >> >> Script trigger version here: >> http://homebasesoftware.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/highlighting-rows-in-filemaker-lists-or-portals/ >> >> j. > > > Thanks for the leads, Jonathan. I did my best to make the 1st one > work, but the best I could get was something that would highlight each > newly selected record but not UNhighlight the previously selected > ones. Obviously, there's some trick involved in refreshing the global > variable that tracks the current record, and I couldn't get the hang > of it. > > As to the script-trigger version, there are just too many ways of > navigating from 1 record to another for me to want to script all the > various possibilities, so I just passed on this one. > > I appreciate the effort to help, but I'm surrendering for now and will > live without the enhanced highlighting. This is just way harder than > it has any reason to be. I have submitted my hope for a "Get ( > ActiveRecordID )" function into the FMI "requested feature" suggestion > box, so maybe sometime in the future there'll be a way of > accomplishing this objective in a more user-intuitive fashion.