I there a way to create calculation a field to display the current mode: browse, find or preview? I know the result must to be stored globally in order to display it in find mode. I have played around with the Get (WindowMode) function but can not seem to get things to work out. Any ideas?

Thank You

Anthony

I have to ask -- Why? The mode is displayed in the bottom right hand corner of every window. I'm just guessing your motivation for a calc, but I design dedicated Find layouts that have a red header, so that the user visually can "see" that they're in Find mode.

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, that’s exactly it; I’m trying to cut down on the creation of separate layouts and scripts for my finds while giving the user a more in your face display when they are in find mode. I can do it with a script by setting a global field before entering and exiting find mode but it gets cumbersome.

Why not use conditional formatting?

I did not think conditional formatting was available

until ver 9 and above and my clients are 8.5

I'm very minimalist by nature but I'm most partial to dedicated find screens. It's an opportunity to remove all buttons from the screen and customise the field formats to suit the entry of find criteria.

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Case (Get (WindowMode) = 0; "Browsing"; Get (WindowMode) = 1; "Searching")

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