Can I go back?

[Todd]

I'd love to incorporate the ability to go back to a "last page viewed", if that's possible, without hard wiring the button to a specific page. Is this possible? Navigation similar to a website?

Thanks

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Well,

The best solution I've seen and started using is a sample from Giuseppe Pupita available on his web site at http://www.buliga.it.

[ernst]

If you navigate from layout to layout with button triggered scripts you could 'record' all visted layouts in a global field, and use that data to go back.

The found records for each previous layout could then also be 'recorded' and traced back by copying record ID's into a global (repeating?) field.

Sort order would be a bit harder, but if you only use scripted sorts possible.

Regards,

Ernst.

[Todd]

Thanks for the tip - I went to the buliga.it site and the solution looks like a monster, but I'll try it.

[Ugo DI LUCA]

It's not a monster, it's a killer

When you've got it to run on your file, whoah

[kenneth2k1]

For those of you that are stupid like me, it is on this page near the bottom called Navigation.

To me, this shows more of a file-to-file navigation rather than layout-to-layout. Here is a method I use:

Navigation buttons have this step in them:

Set Field [g_PrevLayout, "Status(CurrentLayoutNumber)"]

where g_PrevLayout is a global field.

Then my back buttons have

Go to layout [g_PrevLayout] - In the step, make it go to layout number from field

This is not exactly "browser" navigation, but you could modify it.

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Yes it is and no you're not

I reacted to the "Web-like" querry, which is the purpose of this tip.

Now, you may have another look to it as it does really more than a file to file. Try clicking in some fields and you'll see how all your movements are strored...

[kenneth2k1]

Hi Ugo. Are you back home now?

I am still looking at the file. At first, I did notice that it would go back to the previous layout. But then I noticed that when I clicked on the Assets button in the Menu file, it takes me to a list view in the Assets file. If I click a record in the list, it takes me to a form layout. If you click the back button from there, it takes me all the way back to the Menu file, not to the list layout. Check it out and see if it is just me.

Ken