I know this is probably very easy but I am missing something here. What I would like is to have a drop down on my layout that draws its data from a value list. When the user selects one item from the list, a find would immediately occur using the criteria the user chose as the find criteria in Field A.

Can someone assist me in accomplishing this?

Thanks,

Mark

FileMaker Version: 7

Can't really do that. What you can do is

Enter Find Mode []

Loop

Pause/Resume Script [Duration (seconds): 1]

Exit Loop If [ not isempty(Field A) ]

Perform Find

Another way to do it, is to have a Value List attached to a Global Field (lets call it gText) And a Button Next to the gText that performs a script.

The value list can be all the values of Field A (from your example).

You also need a relationship (Lets call it Lookup). The relationship is from gText to Field A in the same table.

The User selects a value for gText then clicks the button

the script ;

GotoRelatedRecord(show, Lookup)

GotoLayout (your layout)

this should work

Jerry