August 14, 200718 yr Newbies I'm sure this has been a past post, so if anyone can point me in the right direction... I would like to have a history of the last 5 or 10 records so that if interupted, one could go back to the previous record that they were working on... Thanks, -Marc
August 14, 200718 yr There are different ways to do this, but perhaps the most clever I've seen is in Ray's Retrace Steps demo, which does it using a global variable. Check it out (I think it will work in 8.0) http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/
August 14, 200718 yr Are you looking for a scripted button to restore the records? A simplified version may look like: Required fields: TheTable::ModifiedTimestampField TheTable::ModifiedTimestamp Freeze Window Enter Find Mode Set Field[ TheTable::ModifiedByField; Get( UserName )] Perform Find Sort Records[ TheTable::ModifiedTimestampField ] If[ Get( FoundCount ) > 10 Go to Record[ 11 ] Omit Multiple Records[ Get( FoundCount ) -10 ] End If
July 18, 201114 yr Newbies Hello everyone, i am a newbie on FM Pro and i ran into this example while i was googling, i was trying to use the Nightwing demo in my db solution to get the BACK button, but i am stuck on some concepts. How does the example create the history string in the $$StepTrace global variable? How is it updated with every click? I can't find any instruction who does that in the scripts (Retrace or Start) Can u guys help me figuring that out?? Thanks in advance Danilo Edit1: I think it has something to do with the NewLog variable that i can't find where it's defined during the record change
August 23, 201213 yr If you examine the layouts, you'll see that a block at the bottom left beside the navigation buttons which says Record xx of yy total. This text is actually being generated in a web viewer object. Look at the custom 'url' in the web viewer and you'll see where $$steptrace gets updated as part of a long 'Let' function definition. If you don't want to use it this way, then you can replace the HTML at the end of the let function with a null text string, and reduce the webviewer obejct to something very small, a few pixels square. Just put it on all the layouts you want to be able to retrace through and it should work OK HTH Brian
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