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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ILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 30
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Description
If this script step is used from an active portal row, and the portal’s table is the related table, then the
related record in that table is made current. If the portal’s table is not the related table, the first
related record in the found set is made current.
You have the option to view the related records in a new window. This script step requires a
relationship to be in effect.
For example, suppose you have an Invoices table that's related to a Customers table and you're
currently looking at a particular invoice. In the Invoices table, you have a button that's set to Go to
Related Record [Customers]. Clicking this button determines which customer record your current
invoice is related to and immediately goes to that record in the Customers table. If the record in
question is not currently in the Customers table’s found set, the script can perform a find to make the
record current.
This script step also works with portal rows. If the currently active portal row is row #3 and you
execute a Go to Related Record script step using the same relationship as the portal, then
FileMaker Pro goes to that particular related record in the related table.
When used with a table in an external file, this script step will open the file containing the external
table and, if selected, go to the external layout you specify.
Note To bring the new window with the related record(s) to the front automatically, add the Select
Window script step.
Examples
The following goes to a related record in the table "MyRelatedTable".
Go to Related Record [From table: "MyRelatedTable";
Using layout: “MyLayout”]
The following goes to a related record in the table "MyRelatedTable" and shows a found set of
related records only.
Go to Related Record [Show only related records;
From table: "MyRelatedTable"; Using layout: “MyLayout”]
Go to Portal Row
Purpose
Navigates among the rows in the active portal.
Format
Go to Portal Row [<first/last/previous/next/by calculation>]