Finding by Making Selection

[Nomad Suit]

Is there a way to Perform Find upon drop-down menu selection?

If that doesn't make sense, here's a scenario:

Three States to find by:

Illinois

Michigan

Colorado

Upon choosing "Michigan," I would like to perform the find without requiring any further actions (e.g., Hitting the Return key, or clicking on another button)

Any ideas?

[Tori Mitchell]

You, my friend, are looking for one of two things:

First option is a filtered portal. With this, you'll be able to select one of those places in the drop down and a portal will be on the side that will display the joined result set. Please read one of the following: SEU: FileMaker Pro 9 (QUE), or FileMaker Pro 9 Bible (Wiley) if you'd like to implement that as it's a technique that has been documented well enough that we don't have to go there again.

Other option is ZippScript or one of the other script triggering plugins. This is a somewhat more limiting step as it requires leveraging a plugin but it'll work.

Those are pretty much your two options there.

[Sunshein]

When I use a drop-down menu, I like to see the selection I made from the list before I go on. Sometimes I could get the one above or below the selection I actually want. So, if I were doing your particular example, I would want to make the selection, see it, then click a go button to get the desired results. It may be easier than getting results which are incorrect and having to come back to the drop down menu and start over again.

I suspect you know the script to do it would be Enter Find Mode, Set Field, and Perform Find.