Hi all,

Is there a way that you can save a tab when switching layouts? Let me explain.

I can script going to a specific tab using go to field. But if the user goes to another layout using the drop down menu and then goes back to the tab layout, the tab changes. I know I can script this, but unless I hide the status area and force layout changes to be made by script, I don't know how to accomplish this.

any Ideas?

Thanks in Advance

Hi Slobey

for example you can exclude that layout from Layout menus

Also you can decide ( with no script) for a default TAB, if you wish, so the user always comes back to that TAB.

Correct me if I am wrong, but to select a default tab I have to go into layout and choose that tab and then back to browse?

Not so quickly ... to browse mode !

Before you have to go to Layouts--Set Tab Order... and press OK or, when in layout mode, choose-select the TAB (darker surround).

The TAB you see will become the default TAB ! :

... you can decide ... for a default TAB ...

Hey : that's a good answere :, but how do I do this?

Can somebody tell me a (ore more) way(s)?

with kind regards; glzm0

EDIT: The Thing with the Tab as described above didn't work for me :

Edited December 20, 200520 yr by Guest
grammar probs

I think I didn't understand what you are meaning =)

in Filemaker 8 we now have two kind of Tabs.

The normal Tabs I am switching with the tabulator-key to get from one field to the next.

And then we have the new Layout-component TABs.

My question is: if there exits three Tabs in my layout, how do always get to the same Tab if I am switchen to another layout and then back?

ok

No more words for this...

Look at the attachment !

DefaultTab.zip