Status functions not working? Am I crazy?

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by charper:

Filemaker 4.1 has the following two functions described in Help:

Status (CurrentRepetitionNumber)

Returns a number representing the current (active) iteration of a repeating field.

Status (CurrentPortalRow)

Returns the number of the current row in a selected portal.

I'm finding that neither of these two functions ever return anything other than zero regardless of what portal row I'm at or what repetition of a repeating field I'm in.

Am I missunderstanding something here? I'm assuming that "current row" and "active iteration" mean wherever my cursor is currently located - correct?

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I would start with your script. Most likely you are exiting something and putting the activity on some other object. Doing just about anything will activate another object and thus deactivate the location of the cursor.

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Kurt Knippel

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[charper]

Filemaker 4.1 has the following two functions described in Help:

Status (CurrentRepetitionNumber)

Returns a number representing the current (active) iteration of a repeating field.

Status (CurrentPortalRow)

Returns the number of the current row in a selected portal.

I'm finding that neither of these two functions ever return anything other than zero regardless of what portal row I'm at or what repetition of a repeating field I'm in.

Am I missunderstanding something here? I'm assuming that "current row" and "active iteration" mean wherever my cursor is currently located - correct?