Switch to layout problem

[tomr40]

I'm using FM 6.0 v2. At my high school we have a Driver Education file stored on a server. A secretary accesses this file from her desk and I access it from home. Everything works good except it opens in the wrong layout. In Preferences/Document/When Opening I have the "Switch To Layout" box checked to the correct layout, but it opens with the wrong layout. I also wrote a script to get to the correct layout and in Preferences/Document/When Opening I checked the box "Perform Script". This doesn't work either.

Any ideas?

[bcooney]

Perhaps your go to layout and open script are in conflict. Use just the script and see what happens.

Perhaps post the script so we can see where you might have gone wrong.

[tomr40]

I tried it both ways alone and the two together. None of the three settings works. I don't know how to export the script, but it is just two steps:

1. Go to Layout["Data Entry Activity Office"]

2. Show All Records

[bcooney]

My memory of FM6 had faded. So, do you have multiple files that comprise your solution? Are you opening the file that has the layout "Data Entry.." first or perhaps you're not in that file at startup.

[Vaughan]

Please update to 6.0v4. It's a free download from the FMI web site.

It might not fix the current problem but it does fix a heap of other things, particularly printing related issues.

BTW check very carefully your preferences settings. Check that there are not two layouts with the same name. Make a new script and put in a custom dialog so you know it's being run, and specify this to run at startup.