How does IWP determine which layout to display on first login?

I've set a layout to be on the top of the "Layout Order" list, to switch to that layout on startup, and to run a startup script which also switches to that layout.

But IWP NEVER shows that layout on login. I can click on a button after login, which runs a script and switches to the layout, but I can find no way of getting IWP to start with the correct layout on login.

Very frustrating!!!

Any ideas or tips?

Edited March 7, 200619 yr by Guest

Nik->

In the File>File options... menu item, there's a section called "When opening this file." Check "Switch to layout:" and choose a layout from the popup.

Another standard way to do this is to have an Opening Script that initializes everything, and includes a Go to layout step.

I've tried both of these things already (as explained not very well in my original post). They both work fine in FMP, but not in IWP.

Are your IWP users the same as your regular FMP users?

If not you could make the web layout the default layout in Filemaker Pro and run an if statement on open that says

if get(privilegesetname)≠webusers

go to layout....whatever your non-web layout is

I've been having the same problem. Both my file options and startup script call a particular l/o upon opening. Users in IWP sometimes get the correct l/o, sometimes not. I am willing to bet it is a FMP bug. Please notify FMP and update this forum if you find out more.

I'm having a similar problem with IWP defaulting to certain pages. I'm developing a secured area for a client to work in and I don't want them leaving these layouts but IWP defaults to other layouts and overides my scripts and opens the status area which I want locked. Has anyone experienced this and what is a work around?

Does anyone have a real fix for this problem?

Here's my workaround: direct users to a page where, for entry to the database, they need to click a button which triggers the opener script.

But I realized that I can't choose the page. The web browser defaults to the first created layout.

Anybody have any insights into this issue?

[color:red]Is everyone who is experiencing this problem running OS X or OS X Server? Is everyone running FileMaker Server 8 Advanced? This needs to be narrowed down some so as to be able to make a definitive report to FMI.

Steven

Testing on local machine (OSX, FMP Advanced) before putting on a server. (I don't want to put it on the server for my client if it's not going to work properly!)

The First Page is Login. only can change delete accounts. [color:red]but, is not advisable. Remember, FileMaker Use User's and Group's. AAAhhh!! one think more. you can modific the First Page, change pictures, text, etc. [color:red]but Againd is not advisable

I'm not sure I understand your response.

I want to direct my users to a particular layout upon log-in. According to all the manuals, this should be possible....Only it doesn't work that way, and the "Open" script just isn't activating.

I really need a solution to this problem!!!

Sorry -- I goofed. My online users account privileges did not allow them to execute scripts.

But now that I fixed that problem, I'm finding that scripts are not performing properly, even though they should be compatible on the web.

One script with an "If" statement that tests whether the user privileges are "Online" doesn't work, and other scripts are stopping midway through...and the script that begins "Perform Find" does not execute the find that's just been entered (it takes the user to "Find Mode"). Does someone have good advice about how to script for web publishing?

OK -- I determined that I need to put "Commit Records/Searches" frequently in my scripts...but I still don't know how to execute the find properly. My button that will execute the find (Steps: commit records, perform find, go to layout) just keeps me in find mode (and clears my search). If I try to do the search manually I keep getting the message that there are no valid criteria.

Also, the online user privileges has the find magnifying glass greyed out -- don't know how to change privileges to allow this. (But I'm also trying everything with full access privileges, and the find isn't working there either.)

I feel like I'm talking to myself, but for the benefit of others, I'll continue.

I've narrowed the problem: it seems that finds of calc fields are problematic online. Anybody have any ideas on this?