Script Steps Reference
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About script steps
- Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
- Control script steps
- Navigation script steps
- Editing script steps
- Fields script steps
- Set Field
- Set Field By Name
- Set Next Serial Value
- Insert Text
- Insert Calculated Result
- Insert From Index
- Insert From Last Visited
- Insert Current Date
- Insert Current Time
- Insert Current User Name
- Insert Picture
- Insert QuickTime
- Insert Object (Windows)
- Insert File
- Update Link (Windows)
- Replace Field Contents
- Relookup Field Contents
- Export Field Contents
- Records script steps
- Found Sets script steps
- Windows script steps
- Files script steps
- Accounts script steps
- Spelling script steps
- Open Menu Item script steps
- Miscellaneous script steps
Navigation script steps
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Navigation script steps
Navigation script steps move to different areas of a database. Use Navigation script steps to:
• go to a specific record or find request
• switch to a specific layout
• move among fields on a layout
• emulate pressing Enter or Tab
• switch to Browse mode to work with contents of a file
• switch to Find mode to fill out find requests
• switch to Preview mode to see how records, forms, or reports will look when they're printed
Go to Layout
Purpose
Switches to the specified layout.
Format
Go to Layout [“<layout name or layout number>”]
Options
Specify lets you choose the target layout. For Specify, you can:
• choose the original layout. The original layout is the active layout when the script is initiated.
• choose a specific layout by name from the list of layouts you’ve defined in your file.
• choose Layout Name by calculation, and use the Specify Calculation dialog box to create
a formula whose result is a valid layout name.
• choose Layout Number by calculation, and use the Specify Calculation dialog box to
create a formula whose result is a valid layout number. (Layout numbers correspond to the
order of the layouts in the file.)
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Description
This script step is useful when you begin a script to make sure the user starts with the correct layout
displayed.
Notes
• The Go to Layout script step can only take you to layouts defined in the same file as the
script itself. To go to layouts in an external file, define a script in that file using the Go to
Layout script step, and call that script from the first file using the
Perform Script script
step.