Making Field Color Text Dependant

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Hi Folks,

I'm deploying a pen based mobile solution (running XP) to handle maintenance. Each Maintenance File uploaded to the mobile has a field called "Status" which will be preloaded to say

"Incomplete". To help see what has and has not been done, I would like the status field in the mobile to automatically change color to say, orange as a conditon if contents = "Incomplete".

How do I program this so that a.) the field color shifts to orange as noted, b.) and when the tech completes his chore, he (pen based-clicks) on the status field and it automatically changes to the color green and loads in the text "Completed" and while I am asking-- generates a time/date stamp for this file? Thanks for any assistance!

[Genx]

make 2 global containers, one to store the color green, on two store the color red, you can just store these color's by entering layout mode, selecting the square draw...er tool, selecting green, and drawing a square, then copying, entering browse mode and pasting.

Then you make a calculation field to result in a container with a formula like the following:

Case(fieldx = "Incomplete" ; gRedHighlight ; fieldx = "Completed" ; gGreenHighlight ; "") and make a script to set the value of field x when the user taps that button. i.e. If[fieldx = "Incomplete"]

SetField[Fieldx ; "Complete"]

Else

SetField[Fieldx ; "Incomplete"]

End If

~Genx

[Genx]

God, not filemaker six again, if it doesnt work feel free to put the blame on me... i honestly have no clue sigh.

~Genx

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Thanks mate. -- I'll give it a shot this afternoon. I was just in your fair city at the Open last month.

When your biz is built around 6.0 FMPRO and it's working (with no problems) it's hard to justify coughing up the coin for yet another software version.

thanks again.

Fowler

[Lee Smith]

Are you using FileMaker Mobil?

If so, I'm not familiar with what can and can't be done with it.

Maybe something like this would do it for you.

Ck_Bx_Select_Flag.fp5.zip

[Lee Smith]

There is nothing wrong with version 6, I found it to be a very stable applications, and made a good living developing for my clients.

Sure, we had to do more workarounds in Version 6 for things that have now been incorporated as tools into the later versions, but I feel a like a better developer having had to learn the workarounds required in v6 to produce the things I needed.

Anyway, if it isn't broke, then don't fix it.

Lee

[Genx]

No no, what i meant was that i dont know about the features or functions in 6, i wasnt saying it was bad, i was just saying that because it wasnt 7 what i suggested may or may not work.

~Genx

[Genx]

There was an open in melbourne last month? These things just go right over my head, where can i get a listing of filemaker related "opens" or other events in my fair city?

~Genx

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??? thanks Lee for the working model. great stuff. I'll take a look this weekend.

I appreciate it!

Fowler