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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:
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> On 2011 Jan 30, at 7:21, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
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>> Method employing a Web Viewer to trigger a global variable that you
>> can use:
>> http://my.advisor.com/doc/19332
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>> Script trigger version here:
>> http://homebasesoftware.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/highlighting-rows-in-filemaker-lists-or-portals/
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>> j.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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