I am looking to implement a a flag that would indicate if any records meet a particular criteria.

 

In the header of a layout I would text to show up red if any record in the table has field1 with a value of "myValue"

 

The idea is that any record that was created by a particular user will be scripted to set field1 with the value of "myValue".

 

I want a flag to show up for a higher level operator to review that record.

 

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Just to express clearly I do not want the flag to only show up on a record that said user has created, but rather a flag to show up on every record to indicated there is a new record somewhere that the higher skilled operator needs to review.

 

The operator will be able to search field1 for "myValue" or a button can perform the search and the operator will change the value to remove the flag.

 

Is this possible with basic conditional formatting or do I need a more elaborate setup?

 

Thank you in advance, 

 

Greg.

You want to change the color of some text, depending on the value of a field? Yes, conditional formatting does that.

Run a script that add to a global field OR global variable all the unique id's of the records that match some logic either by looping thru records or using SQL ( plugin or fmp12 )

 

1001

1003

1004

1006

 

then a conditionally formatted item that will change or show if the current record matches that of what's in the global field or variable.