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.