navigating to recent records?

[reddust]

Does anyone have an elegant way of navigating to recently accessed records (say the last 10). I've tried storing the details in a separate table looping back after 10, but that seemed problematic. I've wondered about drop down or pop up menus (eg in MS Word). Any help much appreciated

Many thanks :P

[Vaughan]

It's actually easier than you think:

1) Script the navigation process -- disable all built-in FMP navigaion.

2) Store the record ids in a global field (or variable) as the records are browsed.

But why? Is it to emulate a web browser experience?

[Genx]

... Recently accessed as in recently modified, or recently viewed?

[reddust]

I guess I mean accessed or viewed.

In working with a list of customers (or whatever) I'm often in one record perhaps just reading or sometimes writing to, then need to break off that activity to go to another file only to need to come back to the first. On any particular day there are a small number of records I'm going to and from quite regularly even though the whole database stores thousands.

To have a pop-up list or a series of tabs or whatever of the last (say) 10 records accessed would make this navigation process very simple.

So it would involve a list of the ten most recently accessed records that would need updating each time a search was carried out.

Perhaps 10 global fields? The issue is an efficient way to relabel each of the ten fields to reflect recent currency.

Any ideas? Has anyone already done this?

Thanks

SB

[reddust]

So in the end not so complex - to recall 6 recent records; 6 global fields and update these incrementally using a counter variable with each find, next or previous. These variables appear on the screen as tabs with an underlying button that performs the search.

SB