When filemaker opens up...

[larine]

When someone opens the database under the guest account, I want it to open to a default page, with no records displayed, and the "home" layout. At the moment when anyone opens the database it opens at the last record/layout the last user was looking at. Anyone know a solution to this?

[Mark Kenepp]

With the desired FileMaker file open, go to the File menu and select File Options...

In the Open/Close tab, select the desired layout in the When opening this file section.

Alternately, you could create a script that navigates to the layout you want, and performs any other tasks you wish at start-up, and set that script to run by selecting it through the same dialogue box mentioned above.

[cooldjmac]

What if the user is connecting via the Instant Web Publishing portion? How do you set the default page that way and more importantly, hide the status bar?

[IdealData]

You need to do a little scripting.

Apart from the default layout you can also specify a start up script - then you can do pretty much anything.

See the Get(ApplicationVersion) function to determine the client application.

[larine]

This is great. Thanks so much for your help!