Photo Catalog Template Question

[TrainFan]

In the Photo Catalog Template database there is a Thumbnail view where you can click on an image and be taken to the same image in Browse mode. Works very well!

My problem is I can't figure out how it works.

Working through the Scripts it appears to work as follows.

1) a Label Layout is used to configure a field grid 3 x 5.

2) a thumbnail LAyout displays the contents of the Label Layout as seen in preview mode.

3) You click on one of the 15 displayed images and by so doing Perforn one of 15 scripts named "GO TO Record n" where n is the image position. Works great.

Problem is I can not find anywhere in the Table Fields, Layouts or Scripts where the above Scripts are referenced. I assume Buttons have somehow been applied over the 15 fields with which script to Perform, BUT HOW?

I would like to be able to change the number of Thumbnail Columns and Rows but all attempts so far have failed when I attempt to then click on one and be sent to the appropriate image.

Does anyone know how FileMaker causes one of "n" scripts to be Performed by clicking on a Thumbnail, which is just a copy a Label page placed within one container.

Thanks, Bob

[Fenton]

They are invisible square buttons, over the space where "each picture" appears in the single global container field which displays the thumbnails.

BTW (and I've said this before), that template really should have only ONE script for this, with 15 different parameters; from 1 to 15. That's all those 15 scripts are doing. It is a shame they didn't optimize this template for version 7.

The 3x5 layout is used to copy from in Preview mode. The result, on the clipboard at this point, is pasted into a single global container field; that's what's on the viewing layout. So make your changes on the 3x5, then adjust your invisible squares to match. Turn on their lines temporarily to see.

(P.S. Their many Sort scripts can also be optimized for 7, 3 scripts to 1, since 7 supports multiple Sort steps in one script. Once again, kind of lame. Good learning exercise however -)

[TrainFan]

Thanks for your help. After a little digging in the HELP File was able to Select an individual Button and saw, that indeed, that is where the Scripts are Performed from.

Bob