Dynamic Layout Design driven by a script? Y or N?

[Leb i Sol]

Hello Gurus!

Here is another of my ignorat posts .... I hope you can advise.

The scenarion:

-layout MAIN: has 3 fields (Field1, Field2,Field3) that will "take" some text.

-Layout 1: is a tab based navigation but I would like to generate these tabes based on the content of the Fields 1-3

so:

eg. (in some crazy theory)

----------theory --------------

Loop

For as many fields (3 in this case)

IF Field_1 is Empty THEN

write nothing (don't create a tab on the Layout 1)

ELSE

Go to Layout 1

write/make a button- "tab with a label that = content of the Field_1"

End Loop

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so If I enter a text "Joe" in the field_1 -layout Main I would like to after go to the Layout 1 and make a button-tab like with a text(label) of "Joe"

I hope all this makes sense to all of you nice people out_there

and AGAIN THANK YOU!

[cjaeger]

since you outlined the solution, where is your problem?

buttonlabel1=Case(not isempty(Field1),Field1,

not isempty(Field2)Field2, ....,"")

now have 3 calculated containerfields if(not isempty(buttonlabel1, tabgraphic,"") ...

and place the placeholder for buttonfield1 on the tab.

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Sure, no need for a script here.

Well, now let me bounce on it a little;

When in find mode, a global or a calulation won't show. I worked on a multi-language solution of my files lately and had terrible disappointments with this issue as all the translations were calculated "labels".

Is there anyway to have the label calculated and displayed in find mode ?

[Leb i Sol]

"since you outlined the solution, where is your problem?"

well as I said I can conceptualize all of it..even usign SQL logic...but I know >="0" when it comes to scripts..that is why you see me pop up in here every so oftern

Thank you for the posts....give me some time to digest and I am sure I will be back to bother you some more

thank you again!

[cjaeger]

Is there anyway to have the label calculated and displayed in find mode ?

Sure - make it a <<placeholder>> of a global. But then you need scripts to set it.

[Pupiweb]

Take a look at Navigator by Nico Kuilmann

ftp://ftp.fmfiles.com/download/open/Navigator.sit

ftp://ftp.fmfiles.com/download/open/Navigator.zip

or at Smart Tabs by mikhail Edoshin

http://www.onegasoft.com