Value List of Scripts

[Jarvis]

Is there any way to organize scripts by category?

The ideal method would be something like a conditional value list where by I could, for example, select GO TO scripts and sub-select GO TO SPECIFIC LAYOUT scripts.

Does anybody have a management type plug in for this?

Thanks,

Jarvis

[Wim Decorte]

Not like you want it to be. It's a big feature request though so make sure to add your vote to it:

http://www.filemaker.com/company/product/feature_request.html

New Millennium had a tool for FM6 that allowed you to organize scripts, not sure if there is a FM7 version of it though.

[Jarvis]

Thanks Wim,

I will check out Millenium.

(I did add my vote for this feature)

Jarvis

[Fenton]

I have come up with a technique that helps with this. It doesn't create folders, which would be wonderful, but that is impossible at present (someday...).

What I've done is to create a "table of contents" at the top of the scripts, then use that for scrolling to the correct section. The way it works is to scroll to a number (which come before text in sorting). So, in order to scroll to section 1, you would have to put a script starting with 1 at the BOTTOM of the section.

The TOC looks like:

[1] Navigation

[2] Reports

[3] Printing

[4] Imports

In the scripts I do it like:

[1] ____________________ NAVIGATION

Bunch of navigation scripts

1

[2] ____________________ REPORTS

Bunch of report scripts

2

Notice that the number is at the bottom of the section. That is where it scrolls to. It's also at the top, but with brackets, so it's ignored. These are empty scripts.

There's only really 9 numbers, and you really only need a number to scroll a whole page or so. So you can combine sections and just use one number. Just write them both in the TOC so you know which. Example:

[1] Navigation & Reports