Print specific record

[Jason Goldsmith]

Probably a basic question, but it has me baffled. How do I print just the record on screen, in the current layout? This would be via an automated button. Do I have to script a search to find just the one record of interest, or is there a way to print the record on the screen. At present, I'm printing the first record of a series of records, but not the record on the screen.

[stanley]

When you Print, you print the current set of records (the found set, or every record, depending on the situation.) To print the record you're currently looking at, omit the record, then show the omitted record. To do this, the following script steps should be followed:

Omit Record

Show Omitted

...your printing steps...

Show All

The Show All at the end is to get you back to square one, and leaves you on your current record. It is not necessary, but I always put it on so that a following search always looks at the whole set, etc.

-Stanley

[ernst]

An even easier way to do this.

In the print dialog there's the possibility to select -amongst others- the current record or the found set. On the Mac you first have to select 'Filemaker' in the popup menu in the print dialog, I suppose there is something similar when using Windows.

Filemaker remembers these settings in the 'page setup' script step.

Regards,

Ernst.

[-Queue-]

Also, if you don't Enter Preview Mode, you won't have an issue of the first record printing, instead of the current one, when you opt to print Current Record.