I am very new to filemaker - so please excuse the simple question.

All I want to do (and I don't want to use the Find View) is to have an empty text field that a user can type in some text, and hit a search button on the page - which then searches accross my single tabled database in a field called items and goes to a list view of these items.

I just can't seem to work it out. Thanks for your help.

Regards,

-FJ

Welcome to the forums.

Create a global text field and use this as the empty field for the user to enter search terms.

Create a script - on the "Find" button - along the lines of:

Allow user abort off

Set error capture on

If IsEmpty (global field)

Exit script

End if

Enter find mode

Set field "items" with contents of the global field

Perform find

If found count = 0

Show message "None found"

End if

Go to list layout

To clarify, the second if statement would be:

If [ get(foundCount) = 0]