Hello All:

I have a layout with buttons. Clicking on one of the buttons opens up a
data entry layout in new record entry mode.

I am discovering the following:

- All previous records are in the found set (I hope this is the right
term to use).

- If the user wants to go to the bottom of the form (usually off
screen), he/she thinks that the scroll wheel button on the mouse can do
the trick. However, using the wheel causes the form to display one of
the previous records! If the user is not paying attention, he/she
starts entering/modifying the data for the wrong record!

Is there a way of preventing this? I can think of two ways:

- Reducing the found set to the new record being created.
(I see a "constrain found set" command but I am not sure if this
would do the trick."

- Disabling the scroll wheel when the user is in FileMaker.

How do I do one of the above?

Any other means of preventing this problem?


Thanks,

Sam

As far as I know you can't disable the scroll wheel in FileMaker. The
only thing you can do is disable the menus using passwords which will
also knock out scrolling through records with the mouse wheel. This is
usually done for complex solutions but it's a pain for simple solutions
since you have to code for everything (new rec, del rec, sort,
omit...).

The quickest solution is probably to just find the record your creating
/ updating using the following code;
- show all records
- omit (the one you want to modify)
- show omitted

In article <1126887392.041489.187320 (AT) g43g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
a (AT) pottnerconsulting (DOT) ca says...
Actually I think to knock out the mouse wheel scrolling records you just
have to hide and lock the status area.


FM7s ability to run multiple windows is probably a cleaner solution.
Keep the found set in one window, expand to a single record in a
separate window. Of course that makes it awkward to work with the found
set.

In article <MPG.1d949afe63ed003a989d17 (AT) shawnews (DOT) vf.shawcable.net>,
nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com says...
Heh... that last sentence was supposed to be the first...

-Dave