Newbie Scripting Question

[rossination]

I'm a beginning Filemaker user! I'm using it at a driving school to keep track of student records. Basically, students are organized by student numbers, which include a class number (a number might be 06-003-04, which means the student is #4 of the class 06-003).

One of the things that we do regularly is enter attendance. I've figured out how to make a script to do that: it's a pretty basic "Insert...next field...insert" script. But it doesn't take into account kids that were absent on a given day. Here's what I'd like my script to be able to do.

I'd like it to ask me for the last names of the students who are to be omitted from the attendance marking (the students who did not show up). It would run a script on the remaining students, and then a separate one on the omitted ones. I know that I have to use some sub-scripts and make use of the "omit records" feature, but I can't quite figure out how.

Forgive me for asking what may be a silly question! If there are FAQs or guides that would explain this easier, kindly direct me to them.

Thanks very much,

Dan

[Brian C]

Is there a reason why you are not going to a layout for the students in the particular class that is set to List Mode and then just have a field with a radio button value list where you can mark them as having attended, tardy, absent? You could even have the field use an autoenter option and have it store "Attended" when the record is created. That way you can just mark the students that are absent, since they are usually the minority in most cases...