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Jonathan Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:30:39 -0500
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Not so, they are triggers FOR scripts. Totally the answer to your need. The onRecordLoad trigger fires a script ANY time a record is made the active one. 

It's what's for dinner.

j.


On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Richard S. Russell wrote:

> On 2011 Jan 30, at 22:45, Mike wrote:
> 
>> Hi Richard,
>> 
>> What way do you have of navigating to a record on a list layout that won't load it?
> 
> 
> Clicking on it, using a "Next Record" or "Previous Record" script, using the rolodex icon, using "go to related record", landing there as the 1st result of a Find or the topmost record of a Sort.
> 
>> The script-trigger version works with 'on record load', and is pretty much a step-by-step recipe. 
> 
> I haven't done much work with script triggers, so I may be selling them short if a single trigger command could cover all of these navigation methods. I guess I assumed (woops) that the word "script" in "script triggers" meant that they could only be activated FROM a script. Not so?

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