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Layout switching on record creation..HELP!

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I have a client running FMP8v2 on two Mac OSX 10.3.9 computers over a network. The issue is that when I am on a layout and create a new record (both scripted and using drop-down method), my layout switches. I cannot figure out why. My script (I built to test) forces the layout I want to stay on, but does not seem to do anything. I am logged in as Admin with Full Access so there should be no permission issues. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Do you have some custom script (and a custom menu) creating the new record, or is it using the built-in Filemaker command? In layout mode, go to layout setup, and check that the default Filemaker menu set is chosen.

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No custom menus have been setup. My layout is also tied to the TO that I need to create the record in.

has the file ever been crashed or recovered? Can you post it here?

If you make a new layout based on the same TO, does the problem occur? If so, does it happen with any other TOs or base tables?

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Thanks to everyone that responded. I was able to find the issue by using the Script Debugger. For some reason, I had a global calc field (tied to an auto-running script using FMExample) evaluate when I created a new record. I had pre-populated data sitting in the global which I removed. Once this was done, everything worked perfectly. So I have edited the script that populated that global to ensure it is empty unless I am on that layout and perfection.. or at least a progression torward it.

Thanks again!

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