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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Options
Specify lets you choose from the following options.
• First moves to the first row in the portal.
• Last moves to the last row in the portal.
• Previous moves to the previous row in the portal. Exit after last tells FileMaker Pro to exit
the loop or the enclosing script.
• Next moves to the next row in the portal. Exit after last tells FileMaker Pro to exit the loop
or the enclosing script.
• By Calculation moves to the row number that is the result of the calculation you create.
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Description
When no portal is active, the script uses the first portal in the layout stacking order.
This script step tries to keep the same related field selected when changing rows. If no field in a
portal is selected, the script selects the first related field it can enter.
When a related field in a portal is selected, you can use this step to move to the same field in
another portal row. For example, if the third field in the second portal row is selected, Go to Portal
Row [Next] goes to the third field in the third portal row.
Examples
The following selects the first portal row in the current record.
Go to Portal Row [Select, First]
Go to Object
Purpose
Moves to the specified object on the current layout.
Format
Go to Object [Object Name: "<object name>";
Repetition: <repetition number>]
Options
Click Specify to display the "Go to Object" Options dialog box, where you can set the following
options:
• Object Name is the named object to make active on the current layout. To assign an object
name, choose View menu > Object
Info in Layout mode and enter a name.
• Repetition (optional) lets you choose a field's repetition to go to. Otherwise defaults to 1.
This option is ignored if the object is not a field.