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.
>
>