I have a main switchboard which links 7 other databases via buttons and scripts. It works well to take me from main switchboard to individual database. In individual database I have another button that say exit, which is supposed to take me back to the switchboard (which it does) -- here's the problem. I tell the script to close the current database before it goes back to main switchboard, but it doesn't close the file - it does return to the main switchboard, but when you exit the switchboard the other database is still open and you must close this separately.

here is the script I have on the exit button:

close file [current file]

open file ["switchboard"]

What am I overlooking?

Thanks for your help.

Rhonda:

Welcome to the Forums.

You'd be better off doing it this way. Have a script in your switchboard which has the single step Refresh Window [bring to front], and all your other files, when they exit, should have a script which says:

Perform Script [your new script in the switchboard]

Close File [current file]

The thing that gets me is that your exit script really shouldn't work at all, because the Close File [] step (as I understand it) should kill the script as well as the file.

-Stanley

I am really new to FM and to scripts. I am NOT a programmer. I don't even have documentation of any kind for the FM 7 Developer. It has been a process of using the help function to figure out how to set privileges and various validations of fields. I can't believe they don't have a copy of documentation anywhere here at work. How can you have a program without doc? Anyway,

Can you send me an example of a switchboard and script?

Thanks.

Rhonda

The documentation is in the program: Help | FileMaker Developer Help.

Since you're not a programmer, you'd better get Stars' Learn FileMaker Pro 7 and work through the problems at the end of each chapter. As for the specific problem, in the script, change layouts first, then close the previous file.