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Greetings, all, and happy new year.

Here's a puzzler: I read that it's good FM developer practice to not let users have access to the Status Area in run-time solutions...which makes sense. However, by making it inaccessible users can't glance at the record counter to see that they're at Record X of Y...though they can go to a specific record if they want to by visiting the Records menu.

So, that means writing a script? A calculation?

I'm sure this issue has been dealt with before by someone far more wiser than me, so your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Rich

An unstored calculation (result type set to "text") with a formula along the lines of:

"Record " & Get(RecordNumber) & " of " & Get(FoundCount)

...will provide you with a field which you can place anywhere on the layout to serve in place of the record number in the Status Area. :D

Thank you VERY much--I'll give it a try!