Maybe this link will help, Richard. :) http://homebasesoftware.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/highlighting-rows-in-filemaker-lists-or-portals/ <http://homebasesoftware.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/highlighting-rows-in-filemaker-lists-or-portals/> HTH, Miki On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Mike <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. > >