Querying find request

[joegez]

Is there some way that I can get the status of the omit checkbox of a find request?

I know that if I am in find mode, the contents of the fields are the find criteria. I would like to be able to access whether the omit box has been checked also.

[LiveOak]

I don't know of any way of statusing the omit box. Chances are if you change how you are scripting whatever you're doing, you won't need to. How about having the user click a global field check box for omit and then set omit for real in your script?

-bd

[BobWeaver]

I just happened to find this yesterday while I was fooling around. You can query the omit status with applescript. It goes like this:

code:

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tell app "Filemaker Pro"

set IsOmitted to omitted of request 1

if IsOmitted

set cell "gOmitted" of current record to "1"

else

set cell "gOmitted" of current record to "0"

end if

end tell

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This will set a global field gOmitted to 1 if it is an omit request, and 0 if it's a normal request. You will have to cycle through all requests to get the omit status for each.

This doesn't mean I recommend doing it this way, but you did ask.