This Record Cannot Be Modified In This Window Message

[rtpublishing]

I am working in Filemaker 11 Advanced. I have a layout from which I then pop up another layout for some information to be edited (for a form of report) - Except when the layout pops up and I try to edit the record I get the following message: 'This record cannot be modified in this window because it is already being modified in a different window.'

I hasten to add that the window which the new layout is launched is closed as part of the script and only reopened when the editing in the new pop up layout is completed (the users click a button) so the message is just wrong! This is driving me slowly nuts so any advice would be more than welcome. Many thanks for any help!

[David McQueen]

I am working in Filemaker 11 Advanced. I have a layout from which I then pop up another layout for some information to be edited (for a form of report) - Except when the layout pops up and I try to edit the record I get the following message: 'This record cannot be modified in this window because it is already being modified in a different window.'

I hasten to add that the window which the new layout is launched is closed as part of the script and only reopened when the editing in the new pop up layout is completed (the users click a button) so the message is just wrong! This is driving me slowly nuts so any advice would be more than welcome. Many thanks for any help!

If you have two windows open from the same table and a cursor sits in a field from window #1, you will get that message if you try to edit Window #2. FileMaker has the first cursor owning the record until all fields are exited.

Try a commit records script step prior to opening the second window. That should cause all fields to be exited.

HTH

Dave

[rtpublishing]

Many thanks - It turned out to be something else. But was helpful in getting me to the right place.