Finding problems

[Haifisch]

Hi

I'm ending up asking my question, because I'm trying to find a solution for hours, but it doesn't work as expected.

I have:

1 Table about Persons and

1 Table about Events

Each Event is related to just one Person, visible in a Portal on the Persons layout.

When pressing a button in the portal, I want to switch to a list view which shows all the events for the particular person.

In the script I go to the new layout, enter find mode and perform a find (I copied before the Personsidentifier into a global field to remember which persons event list I'm generating.

But the Find-Dialog is not accepting my global field as criteria, it never uses the value in there (it is there, i checked).

Anybody has a simpler solution or an idea how to tell the findfunction to use my value?

Any comments are appreciated.

Thanks and have a good day

Harry

[mr_vodka]

Look into the Go to Related Record step

[Haifisch]

Thanks Mr. Vodka for your reply.

When I use the 'Go to related record' function, I have just the one event - with the option 'Match all option in current found set' I get all events (even these not related to that person) and I have to filter these again - but how? I'm not getting it.

Thanks anybody for replying

Harry

Edited March 11, 2008 by Guest

[comment]

See if this helps:

GTRR.fp7.zip

[mr_vodka]

If the button is in the portal it will only go to that related record. If the button was outside the portal though, it will go to all the related records.

[comment]

I don't think that is so. GTRR always goes to the "related" record. If the button is inside the portal, it will go to the record in the corresponding row. If the button is outside the portal, it will go to the first related record.

Which records will be found alongside the related record is determined by the options selected in the GTRR step, not by the placement of the button.

[Haifisch]

See if this helps:

Hey comment

Your example solved my problem - with the selection of the option 'match current record only'!

Thank you all very much, for giving advise and even examples to a newbie.

Have a nice day everybody!

[mr_vodka]

Yes you are correct. Its what I was trying to convey but the choice of words that I wrote made it sound completely wrong. Many times what I am thinking and what comes through the keyboard are always off. Perhaps I should go back to bed.

Thanks for the correction Michael.

[comment]

Perhaps I should go back to bed.

I don't know about you, but for me it's the best suggestion I've had in a long time.

See y'all later...