Displaying a Find request's OMIT flag?

[Justin P.]

In Find Mode, is there any way to display the status of the "Omit flag" (for each request)?

I have the status bar hidden on all my screens, I know how to turn the OMIT flag it on or off via a script (Omit Record script step in Find mode), but can see no way to show the user the status of that flag in of his.her each Find requests.

Thanks for any insight.

Cheers,

Justin

[Søren Dyhr]

Not that it's of much help if your solution runs in a mixed environment, but you can reach it with an embedded Applescript saying:

tell application "FileMaker Pro"

get omitted of request 1

end tell

--sd

[Justin P.]

Thanks for the tip S

[Fenton]

Ilyse Kazar came up with an optimization for this. Use a Constant=1 calculation field for your Omit checkbox. Do like you say, loop through requests and omit those. But you don't have to clear it, because it can only be "set" in Find mode, otherwise it's empty in Find mode. And it exists in all records, so the find logic holds.

[Vaughan]

Bob Weaver created a demo file of a technique. From memory it was quite complicated, and it involved looping throught the find requests prior to performing the find to set the omit flag as necessary.

Having been there and done that, I now leave the status area showing wherever possible. (I'm amazed at how often it can be left showing without compromising natigational control.) Showing the status area gives users full access to FMP's powerful search capabilities, and I neatly side-step all those complicated work-arounds.