Bonehead question here, but one to which I cannot find the answer. I can't find any explanation in any books or the Help pages.

In some scripts, there is the option of [Restore].

For example:

Print [Restore]

or

Print Set Up [Restore]

or

Perform Find [Restore]

What does the [Restore] part of the script do?

This is probably something so simple that everyone else knows it!

Can anyone share some knowledge with this beginner?

It means "restore the previous settings."

So if you initially set up a perform find where

contactname = "Elvis"

That's what will be used every time you run that command. If you want to make changes make sure "perform without dialog" is unchecked.

To add to what Al posted.

The online help, available when FileMaker is open, is really pretty good at explaining some things, including this one. Do a search for Restore, and look at how it works with these functions:

Sort, find, Export, Inport, and page setup.

Lee

Thank you very, very much! That was a perfect explanation with the example. I get it now.

Thank you for the recommendation. I'll go back and read the online help with an eye to the functions you suggested.

I am all too frequently horrified at how the simplest things that I don't understand transform into a big, awful problem when included in a script. (Let's not talk the scripted disaster I caused yesterday, shall we?) Though I am already knee deep in adding layouts and functionality to this school database I've set up, I have had to fall back, get out my books and the online help function trying to really understand what to expect from different script steps and functions.

Fortunately, this great forum has people like the two of you who responded to my query for the times when none of those resources make sense.

Thank you so much!