I have a few scripts that are cuting and pasting things to perform
finds, but that means that I have to have the field that I am pasting
or cutting on the layout.

I don't want the user to see that field so I made it the same color as
the layout, so it is somewhat invisible.

The problem is that after the find the focus is on the invisible field
and I have to click on the layout to show the portal related records.
How can I set the focus in a script so that it would be equivalent to
clicking anywhere on the layout ?

-S

At the end of the script, include script step GoToField without designating
a field to go to.

Al

<squeed2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Use the set field step, instead of copying and pasting. The field does not
have to be on the layout. Also, this prevents the user from losing whatever
clipboard s/he was using when the script ran (like if she copied a name,
then ran the script).

I started out using copy/paste. Since I started using set field, I avoid
them altogether. The exception is that with date fields prior to FM7, you
couldn't use set field to put in text characters (like ><=). For that, I
have a layout called "routine fields", and my script says freeze window, go
to layout [routine fields], insert calculated result [date , ">" & status
( currentdate ) ], go to layout [original layout]. Alternately, you can set
your string (">8/15/2005") into a text global, then set the date equal to
that text global. In FM7, though, set field works correctly even with date
fields.

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Chris Cain
Extensitech, Inc.
ccain (AT) extensitech (DOT) com


<squeed2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote