I am unclear about the meaning of the "Use External Table's Layouts" checkbox in the Go To Related Record (GTRR) feature.

I understand that by checking this, FM will only use layouts that are based on the TO to display the related records. However, I have found that my application runs much faster when I use my old standby method of locating related records, which is to set global variables from the calling window, and then performing a scripted find using those globals in the destination window (This is a holdover from when the application was in FM6).

Because of this, I have kept most of my layouts based on the "vanilla" TO in the relationships graphs (that, and the fact that I'd have to re-link all my data fields on the layouts to the fields in the new TO. Ugh!). But, I am trying to simplify my processes by using the GTRR step. However, with my layouts NOT built on the related TO, I can't check the "External Table" option and use the appropriate layout, so I leave it unchecked. But FM stores the phrase "Unknown" in the GTRR step.

I do not know what effect this "Unknown" layout status might have on my application, and want to know if anyone out there can tell me whether I need to make the larger effort to convert my layouts over.

Thanks.

David

'Unknown' is a bug that doesn't appear to have any impact on the functioning of the script step.