Position the scroll slider at the bottom?

[Hoib]

I'm not sure if this is even possible.

If you have an element on a layout (text box, portal) that you've set up in a window with scrolling, FM 11 by default places the scroll slider at the very top.

Upon calling this layout, what if you wanted the scroll slider to auto-appear at the bottom of the scrolled element instead? Is that a script step or script triggered event?

Hoib

[bcooney]

Perhaps you could use go to object and go to last portal row in a navigation script. What is this a requirement? Perhaps you need filters or sort orders?

[Hoib]

OK, Hi again Consultant...

The requirement would be that every time I have a scrolling element, I'd like the behavior to put the scroll slider at the bottom rather than the top. This avoids the user having to grab the slider, pull or click it down into position for their input or view. I could sort the portal to put the most recent entry at the top where the scroll slider is positioned. Then the user has to know that the sort is reversed. That's not all bad, I know but... It's surprising that behavior isn't planned for (along with a thousand other things people can come up with).

When I navigate to the layout, there needs to be a script that launches to go to last portal row. What if I have 2 or 3 portals? A script for each? Is the script pinned to the indiv portal. If so then the user needs to select the portal to trigger the script, right? Or could I do that with an OnEvent?

Thank you.

[bcooney]

Use object names for the portals. I find this an unusual requirement. You may want to investigate scripting new portal row (child) records so that there is no need to scroll to the bottom (that is, to add a new record).