I'm new to FM and am having some real difficult getting it to do what I want it to. I'm used to using MS Access.

Anyway, I have a form with company details (name, address, etc) and one of the fields is 'Primary Contact', which indicates the name of the main person in the company and links to a 'Contacts' table.

I want users to be able to open a popup window to add a new contact for the company. I know that I can use scripts to open a new window containing the current layout, but how do I get it to open a small window with the 'Contacts' layout in it?

Thanks.

I am still learning the intracacies of FMP7, but, I believe in my reading to date, that almost everything is contextual based, including windows.

That said, you should be able to open a window using a script by first navigating to the the appropriate layout and then opening the window you want.

Hope this helps

So I'd need the script to navigate to a layout, open the window and then navigate back to the original layout?

Seems a strange way of doing things?

No. You open a new window first and navigate to the desired layout in the new window (after you open the new window, you ARE in the new window).

Aaah. I see. So my scripts will be referencing the new window from the next line.

I'll give it a go.