I created a layout and placed a global field in the header. When I was testing I had the layout in "View by Form" mode. As soon as I switch to "View as List" of course it stops working.

I can see the logic of this in a List view with regular fields. But with Globals, it would seem that it would handy if they worked in List view as well. I am using 5.5. Is this resolved in 6.0? Or any other helpful ideas? My mission is to have a popup in the header that drives a find. So the user will select a value into the global, and then I will run a script that uses that value to perform a find and a sorts. Works like a charm in Form view. The problem is the form view show a rather short list . . . .

Thanks for any ideas. Maybe just upgrade? That would be simple enough.

Bob

Hi,

Dowload this tip and see if it can help.

[color:"red"] FindsinHeader.fp5

Thanks for this suggestion. It is a bit messy from a user interface point of view in my specific case. I, of course, did not give the full story. I need to have the selection be a popup list as it is data driven and currently contains about 20 items, though that might change. This object type makes it "look" like the value selected is going the go into a field with a diffent purpose in the body section. Thus it will confuse some users. I will experiment to see if I can not make a palatable look by special placement, or maybe some other trickery. Thanks for your thoughts.

Bob