Running a script on a tab

[dbiernacki]

Hi Everyone - This is my first (of many, I'm sure)post.

So I have been working as a user and novice designer in previous versions of Filemaker for several years. I am now on the developer side of things and our company recently upgraded to 8.5. I'm doing my first design in here and, for the sake of learning, have been pushing this one pretty hard. We have the basic functioning up and running and now we're "fancying things up a bit". I was trying to take a tab layout and make it run scripts from the tabs. I've done the button part of things, but my script is the problem. I'm asking the button to search a group of records and show me only those with an "open" listing. I can get it to do this, but instead of showing these records in a list type view within the tabbed box, I get multiple tab boxes on the page. I'm attaching a screen shot. What I want is for those records to show up as a list inside the tab. There must be a way, but its lost on me. The only thing I could think was maybe putting in a portal but I've been having trouble with record returns in those. Any hints?

[dreamingmind]

I think your instinct about portals is correct. That should solve the problem. If you have the relationship built correctly, it should show exactly the records you want.

If you're having trouble with the portal showing what you want then a but more consideration of the problem and how a relationship will get the records you want is in order... because a portal is what you want!

Don

[comment]

A tab object belongs to a layout. Switching to another panel does not change the layout or the view. You can make fake tabs that run scripts, including going to another layout.