consolidating Find scripts

[charper]

My database has layouts that contain what I refer to as Quick Find buttons. Each button performs a simple find operation based on a specific field having a specific value.

For example: The "New Orders" Quick Find button finds all of the order records that have the value of "New" in the Order Status field.

I have about 5 to 10 such buttons on each layout in my database totaling about 40 Quick Find buttons.

The problem is that there is a script associated with each button therefore I have to maintain this huge list of 40 find scripts. What I'd LIKE to able to do is have just ONE find script for each layout that conditionaly performs the appropriate find operation based upon which Quick Find button was clicked, but I'm miffed about how to accomplish this in Filemaker. Anybody have any ideas?

[LiveOak]

You'll have to use the Clairvoyance[] function. There is no way to use only one script. You can use one long script and one short script per button. If you have the same script assigned to every button, there is no way to tell which button called the script (except to use the Clairvoyance[] function).

For the short and long scripts, the short script sets a global to 1 for the first button, 2 for the second, 3 for the third, etc. The long script tests the global and sets up the correct find.

-bd

[Ocean West]

To take it a step further. You can utilize the Status(CurrentScriptName) to set a global field this way only need to create a script once then just duplicate it and rename the script. With some position functions and some left and rights you can determine the scritps number..

Script Name: BTN: Quick Find 5

In the script you can get the right most word then utilize that in the long script step. At least creating the individual scripts will be easy. Because you just duplicate and rename.