Opening a file

[jimp]

In FileMaker 5 I could use "Open....file name" in a script to open another FileMaker file.

In FileMaker 7, when I use "Open file....file name" in a script, I get the desired file, UNLESS the file is already open. How do I prevent this cloning of the file, and just "go to" the file if it is already open?

Thanks,

Jim

[Vaughan]

Instead of using Open, use the Perform Script step to run a script in the desired file that explicitly goes to the desired layout, sets the window size etc.

[jimp]

Vaughan,

Well, this is weird. I had been doing as you suggested, i.e. in a button was the perform script command, executing the command: "Open file ["Volunteers"]. And the result was alway a clone when the file was already open, i.e. Volunteer 2, Volunteers 3, etc.

But I just tried it again and I get the same results I used to get in FileMaker 5, i.e. it opens once and has no effect if it is already open.

Very strange.