I'm a newbie, sorry if the answer to this question is too obvious, but I can't figure out how to do it on my own.

After filling in information in the last field on a record, I would like to move to the first field of the next record upon hitting enter from the last field. I would like to minimize the number of key strokes, so I really don't want to use a button or the book. How can I accomplish this.

Thanks very much for your help!

BillBroc

In the auto-enter calculation of the last field, you could use EventScript (a free plug-in for FileMaker 7; see other posts in the forum) to call a script to navigate to the next record: Go To Record [Next] or [by Calculation] (whatever you want).

There are a couple of alternatives to using a plug-in.

One is to use the keyboard command ctrl+down arrow. This will move to the next record, but not to the first field. You can tab to it.

Another is to create a data entry script.

Go to Record/Request/Page[ First ]

Go to Field [ table name::field name ]

Pause/Resume Script [ Indefinitely ]

Loop

Go to Record/Request/Page[ Next ]

Go to Field [ table name::field name ]

Pause/Resume Script [ Indefinitely ]

End Loop

This script will move to the next record and pause to allow for data entry. When the enter key (the one by the number pad on a full keyboard) is pressed, it will move to the next record and select the field you indicate. To exit the script, press the cancel button in the status area. Laptop keyboards behave differently, mine requires ctrl+enter to move to the next record.

Hope this helps,

Steve

Or enter data through a portal and specify which key to use to tab to the next field. When in last row of the portal, it will go to the next first field of the line below when striking either the Tab, Return or Enter key as you specified it to.