pasting refind into a global field

[paul_apted]

hello,

i have this problem i can't figure out .i have created a db that pastes the find criteria (in the description field) to a global field in the header .the reason being that if you want to "refind' that description (if you have messed up on the omit's or whatever) you can just press the "refind" script button and you are back to where you were before.it also doubles as a "save found set" field (on a duplicate layout) etc etc

the problem is:

1) if my find is unsuccesful (eg carp) i want FM to automatically search another field (which is a value in a value list) only then do i want Modify find to come up . When i then modify the criteria ( eg cod) hit return and lo and behold my original find request appears in my global field (carp) is there a way of accessing the field before modify find does it's thing ??

i hope i have made sense of this ,sorry if it is confusing

thanks

paul apted

[LiveOak]

I think you'll find that a paste to a field in the header doesn't work. You can't perform entry into fields placed in a header part. Why use paste, use SetField instead. If you must use paste, switch to an "all field" layout with just a body part for your find operations.

-bd