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.