Globals in a header

[spb]

This may not be the right place for this, but I don't see a Layout forum. This involves scripted finds, so I'm posting it here.

I'd like to put a global field on a layout where the user would enter a find keyword, then click a go button. This would run a script that sets ten fields to the global contents in ten find requests, runs the find, sorts, and clears the global.

My proiblem is that I'd like to place this field in the header of a list layout. But it looks like global fields in a list header cannot be entered. IThis will work in the header of a standard layout, but not list!

I'm sure this has come up before. Is there a workaround, or some other way to get the same job done?

Steve Brown

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Hi Steve,

Here's a "little" workaround that may help...

FindsInHeader.zip

[danjacoby]

Nothing can be entered in any field in the header when in List view; it isn't just limited to global fields.

You could create a "Find" button that activates a script that takes the user to a special layout with the global field, pauses so that they can fill the field in (you may want to clear the field before the pause), then performs the find and returns to the original layout.

That's what I would probably do, but then, I get weird sometimes, so...

[cjaeger]

make your field a button wtih a script

show as form

go to field searchfield, select

add a second button for the find script, including a "show as form" script step at he end

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Hi,

You're in Form view here, right ?

I think Steve wants to stay in List Mode. That"s why I suggested this workaround with a "g_searchkey" field in the body

- as long as the line itself

- with allow editiong unselected

- formated as a Menu, List, or checkbox

- background* (the other fields in the body must be other than transparent)

Then a script :

Go to Record (first)*

Go to field ""g_searchkey"

...and a find button right next the global field in the header.

* Forgot this step in the sample...