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GREAT. thats what i was hoping to hear and was assuming but you know what they say about assumptions. Anthony

if i have a global field and multiple users logged in over the network can i make them all have different values in the same field. if globals wont do it can someone point me in the right direction with some other ideas? for example if i have a global called username and part of my startup script is to set the username = get(accountname) thanks, Anthony

Hey guys, i am using a portal for data entry. each line item that is added gets validated as you leave the field be a script. at the end of the script i have go to layout origianl layout so that my users end up where they stated. the problem is that they end up at the wrong layout. it ends up at a layout that directly shows the contents of the portal instead of the original layout which displays the portal. i have also tried passing get(layoutname) into the validation script as it runs. it also passes the name of the layout that directly shows the line items instead of the invoice layout that shows line items in a portal. any ideas? to make matters worse this script has the ability to run multiple instances of itself. everything works perfectly except the above problem. HELP Anthony

hey guys i have a layout that has a blue background. on top of the background is a large white rectangle. on top of that are multipl eother colored rectangles. on top of them i have transparant text fields. anytime you click on any one of the fields that are transparant you can see through all of them all the way through to the background. is there anyway to get around this? is this a bug or am i just doing something wrong? thanks, Anthony

hey guys i have a layout that has a blue background. on top of the background is a large white rectangle. on top of that are multipl eother colored rectangles. on top of them i have transparant text fields. anytime you click on any one of the fields that are transparant you can see through all of them all the way through to the background. is there anyway to get around this? is this a bug or am i just doing something wrong? thanks, Anthony

hey guys i have a layout that has a blue background. on top of the background is a large white rectangle. on top of that are multipl eother colored rectangles. on top of them i have transparant text fields. anytime you click on any one of the fields that are transparant you can see through all of them all the way through to the background. is there anyway to get around this? is this a bug or am i just doing something wrong? thanks, Anthony

Hey Guys, i want to be able to have a status area on the main screen of my ui. the status area will show how an order works its way through they system. i want to be able to use either pictures that change automatically based on a condition or an object that changes color automatically based on a condition. this condition will be a simple true false with only 2 possible results for each object or picture. anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Anthony

Hey Guys, i want to be able to have a status area on the main screen of my ui. the status area will show how an order works its way through they system. i want to be able to use either pictures that change automatically based on a condition or an object that changes color automatically based on a condition. this condition will be a simple true false with only 2 possible results for each object or picture. anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Anthony

Hey Guys, i want to be able to have a status area on the main screen of my ui. the status area will show how an order works its way through they system. i want to be able to use either pictures that change automatically based on a condition or an object that changes color automatically based on a condition. this condition will be a simple true false with only 2 possible results for each object or picture. anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Anthony

thanks for the suggestions guys this solves my problems.

is there anyway to perform a find within a script where the condition is the value contained by another field? for example if i want to search where field 1 = the contents of field 2? Thanks, Anthony

when im using instant web publishing is there anyway to use the new window script step or any other step for that matter to open another web browser so that i really have both windows open at once? Thanks, Anthony

well i have one data entry screen. within the screen there are 3 areas. customer info. i want to switch this between ship to and bill to. product info. i want this to switch between product info and maintenance info. additional requirements this will switch between about 5 different areas. I had considered using different layouts but wanted to avoid this if possible. there are going to be alot of people using this database and i would like to minimize layout changing for the sake of increased performance.

hey lee and laretta, thanks for the answers. the field im using is actually a data entry screen so i dont think lees idea will work here(but it will save me a headache tomorrow since you already solved my next problem). laretta, my problem is kind of a combination of both solutions you suggested. i have whole areas of fields that i want to cover with whole other areas of fields. so if i use a script to goto the bottom field it will only show one of them instead of all of them. any idea how to do that? thanks for all the help, Anthony

im not recycling the globals. the script sometimes performs a second instance of itself. if i could use a variable i would be fine but becasue the first and second instance of the script use the same global field it doesnt work as it is supposed to.

thats how i had it but i have ran out of screen realestate on the date entry screen. i also have a number of other areas on the screen that i have grouped that i want to be able to show and hide for the same reason.

is there a way to show or hide fields? i basically want to put ship to and bill to customer infomation on top of each other and if the user clicks ship then it hides bill and shows ship and vice versa. Thanks, Anthony

im trying to run a script that uses a loop and im having some problems. here is the scenario. i enter a product number as a line item in an invoice and if there are any required products then it makes new line item for each and copies the required products into the new line items. it works great until your required product requires another product. as soon as that happens your global field that is used as a counter(exit loop if)starts getting used by a second instance of the script. any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated Anthony

make sure the check box in your relationship is checded to allow creation of new records in this table via this relationship. Anthony

thanks for the suggestions. i am actually using it as a data entry method. i am considering just using a wizard style input system instead of one data entry layout instead. i plan to use Q's idea for viewing data though. thanks Anthony

I was wondering if you can create a portal within a portal? Right now i have a portal within a portal and the top line shows the full second portal and the rest of the lines only show the top line of the second portal. hopefully you guys understand what im trying to say thanks for the help, Anthony

Is there anyway to make a field act as a button in table view? Thanks, Anthony