Tab Navigation

[sdpetemc]

I have a layout with 6 tabs created with the layout mode 'Tab Control Setup'. I made sure not to select a default tab, but each script step that changes layouts/tables in the background, returns to the tab showing in layout mode.

I figured out that a nested 'Go to Field' with a hidden field on each tab will get me to the tab of my choice.

My question is... how do I figure out which tab the user is on to begin with? I want to be able to return them to the same tab, after the background scripts have run.

[SteveB]

How do the background scripts get initiated? If through buttons on each tab, you can pass the tab number as a script parameter. Then do a GoTo Field (tabnumber).

Steve

[sdpetemc]

The scripts are running from a portal on the common portion of the layout. Each tab area is a different result set that the user has an option to navigate through.

[SteveB]

Unfortunate. When I'm faced with this situation, I resort to 'phony' tabs. I draw the tabs using the Tab widget, and then capture each tab with a screen capture program (I use Snagit). I build layouts using these captured image, and assign scripts to each image.

Until Filemaker fixes this, you don't have a lot of options, since there is no way to assign a script to a true tab. The workarounds that have been posted are as much work as what I suggested above.

Steve

[JerryD]

Check in here:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/173566/