preview current record

[architennis]

I'm a newbie with FM (using FM7 on Mac OS 10.3.9).

Is there a way to use the Preview mode and have the current record in Browse mode be the record I see in Preview mode? Without having to do a Find? And without having to go through my records in Preview mode?

Thanks for any help or tips.

[Osman]

There are two methods:

First one is using find capabilities of FM. To use that method you should create a script which does the follwings:

Show All records

Omit Record

Find Omited

Enter preview mode

After executing this script your record will be seen in preview mode.

The second method:

You can also create script for this method. But before creating script, you should create new field to store record number (you can define that field as global). Then a script solves your problem which contains following script steps

Enter Preview mode

Goto record/request/page [yourNewField]

I dont know which one is better and is there any more simple or efficient solution exist or not.

[Ender]

Here's a couple more ways to do it using features available in FM7/8 (see the second demo)

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/101576/post/183365

[architennis]

Thanks for the quick responses. To be honest, I don't even use scripts (yet), but now I know that that's the way to do this.

Thanks again for your help.