Script Steps Reference

• 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.
Web compatibility
This script step is web-compatible.
Description
Navigates among the rows in the active portal. When no portal is active, the script uses
the first portal in the layout stacking order.
Go to Portal Row 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.
Example
The following selects the first portal row in the current record.
Go to Portal Row [Select, First]
Go to Field
Format
Go to Field [Select/perform; <table::field>]
Options
• Select/perform tells FileMaker Pro to perform an action on the contents of a field. All
text in a field is selected with this option. The contents of the field (sound, movie, or
OLE) determine what action is performed. If the field contains a sound, then the
sound is played. If the field contains a movie, the movie is played. If the field holds an
OLE object
, FileMaker Pro activates the application that created the object, and then
performs the primary command for that application. For example, if the primary
command is Edit, Select/perform opens the document in a state ready for editing.
• Select Go to target field or click Specify to specify the target field
Web compatibility
This script step is web-compatible.