filemaker, status(currentfieldname) not working in portals?

status(currentfieldname) not working in portals?

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Christoph Bouthillie #1 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Dear Listeners: I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is strangely enough somewhat less than is available via c:\windows\charmap.exe) I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. Then there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole field). It works fine. But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the cursor is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use an If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, too - BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error message comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual Paste works fine, too. Is there a trick to circumvent this? -- Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Christoph Bouthillier post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks ------
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:00:57 GMT

Michael Stou #2 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Quote: > Dear Listeners: > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via c:\windows\charmap.exe) > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. Then > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole field). > It works fine. Use SetField instead of Copy Paste. Copy Paste uses the clipboard and any data in there will be lost if they are switching between applications. Quote: > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the cursor > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use an > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, too - > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error message > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > Paste works fine, too. SetField does not require the cursor to be in a field to work. Quote: > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards > Christoph Bouthillier > post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com > Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks > ------
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:26:42 GMT

Howard Schlossber #3 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Unless you must check for the cursor being in certain fields for your particular solution, how about: If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] Quote: > Dear Listeners: > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via c:\windows\charmap.exe) > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. Then > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole field). > It works fine. > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the cursor > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use an > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, too - > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error message > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > Paste works fine, too. > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards > Christoph Bouthillier > post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com > Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks > ------ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Howard Schlossberg (818) 321-5176 FM Pro Solutions Los Angeles, California Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:28:54 GMT

Christoph Bouthillie #4 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Dear Howard: The status checking works fine in the non-portal portion of the layout, but not in the portal, alas ... but why? -- Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Christoph Bouthillier post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks ------ Quote: > Unless you must check for the cursor being in certain fields for your > particular solution, how about: > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] > > Dear Listeners: > > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via c:\windows\charmap.exe) - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Quote: > > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. Then > > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole field). > > It works fine. > > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the cursor > > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use an > > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, too - > > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error message > > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > > Paste works fine, too. > > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > > -- > > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards > > Christoph Bouthillier > > post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com > > Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks > > ------ > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Howard Schlossberg (818) 321-5176 > FM Pro Solutions Los Angeles, California > Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:37:29 GMT

Christoph Bouthillie #5 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Dear Michael: Unfortunately I cannot use Set Field here because the single character to be inserted must be able to be placed anywhere in the field, therefore "Paste" is the only way to go. An example: The field "t.text" contains "gro?er" but this must manually be changed into "gr??er". Here the cursor will be placed behind "o", the user will backspace the "o" and then fetch the "?" from the special field. -- Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Christoph Bouthillier post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks ------ Quote: > > Dear Listeners: > > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via c:\windows\charmap.exe) Quote: > > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. Then > > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole field). > > It works fine. > Use SetField instead of Copy Paste. Copy Paste uses the clipboard and any > data in there will be lost if they are switching between applications. > > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the cursor > > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use an > > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, too - > > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error message > > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > > Paste works fine, too. > SetField does not require the cursor to be in a field to work. > > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > > -- > > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards > > Christoph Bouthillier > > post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com > > Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks > > ------
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:37:28 GMT

Howard Schlossber #6 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Hi Chris-- I just tried it in Windows with FMP 5.5 and it works fine. I created a script with one step: Set Field[gText, status(currentfieldname). Put a button on the layout (not in the portal) that calls that script. Works when the cursor is in any field, including portal fields. I did a similar test script that starts with If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] to either shoe me an error message or not. This also worked fine from portal fields. Perhaps there is another step in your script before the test that is gtrr or somehow otherwise exiting the portal before your test? Quote: > Dear Howard: > The status checking works fine in the non-portal portion of the layout, but > not in the portal, alas ... but why? > > Unless you must check for the cursor being in certain fields for your > > particular solution, how about: > > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] > > > Dear Listeners: > > > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > > > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > > > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > > > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > > > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > > > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via > c:\windows\charmap.exe) > > > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. > Then > > > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole > field). > > > It works fine. > > > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the > cursor > > > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use > an > > > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, > too - > > > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error > message > > > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > > > Paste works fine, too. > > > Is there a trick to circumvent this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Howard Schlossberg (818) 321-5176 FM Pro Solutions Los Angeles, California Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:58:10 GMT

John Weinshe #7 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Dear Christophe, If the field whose name you want to test is the button, the test will fail. If the field is formatted to disable entry, the test will fail. Also, if the test is for the field name AND the relationship: Relationship__Name::Field_Name ...the test will fail. It wants only the field name without the relationship name. You might test by adding a step to set a global text field to Status(CurrentFieldName) and placing the global temporarily on the layout. You will see that only the name is returned, but it will work if the field is in a portal row and the field is enterable. John Quote: > Dear Listeners: > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via c:\windows\charmap.exe) Quote: > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. Then > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole field). > It works fine. > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the cursor > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use an > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, too - > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error message > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > Paste works fine, too. > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards > Christoph Bouthillier > post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com > Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks > ------
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:12:32 GMT

Christoph Bouthillie #8 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Dear Howard Aaahh! Got it working inside and outside the portal with your help: The copying (of 1 accented character from a value list) Copy["g.accentcharacterdepot"] Go to Field And then the pasting anywhere in any text field: Set Field ["g.fieldnamestatus";"Status(CurrentFieldName)"] If [isempty("g.fieldnamestatus") ShowMessage["In order to paste an accented character the cursor must be in a text field."] Exit Script Go to Field[] Else Paste[] End If Thanks! -- Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Christoph Bouthillier post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks ------ Quote: > Hi Chris-- > I just tried it in Windows with FMP 5.5 and it works fine. I created a script > with one step: Set Field[gText, status(currentfieldname). Put a button on the > layout (not in the portal) that calls that script. Works when the cursor is in > any field, including portal fields. > I did a similar test script that starts with > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] to either shoe me an error message or > not. This also worked fine from portal fields. > Perhaps there is another step in your script before the test that is gtrr or > somehow otherwise exiting the portal before your test? > > Dear Howard: > > The status checking works fine in the non-portal portion of the layout, but > > not in the portal, alas ... but why? > > > Unless you must check for the cursor being in certain fields for your > > > particular solution, how about: > > > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] > > > > Dear Listeners: > > > > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > > > > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > > > > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > > > > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > > > > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > > > > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via > > c:\windows\charmap.exe) > > > > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. > > Then > > > > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole > > field). > > > > It works fine. > > > > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the > > cursor > > > > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use > > an > > > > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, > > too - > > > > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error > > message > > > > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > > > > Paste works fine, too. > > > > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Howard Schlossberg (818) 321-5176 > FM Pro Solutions Los Angeles, California > Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 05:34:16 GMT

Christoph Bouthillie #9 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? Dear John: Thanks for your suggestion. I had followed an advice by Howard last night and had posted its successful implementation some 8 hours ago. You will not have seen my answer due do this (news server failure?). I just reposted it a minute ago. The global Howard had suggested is not even on the layout, and the 2 buttons "Copy" and "Past at cursor" are somewhere in the header; they are not fields, too. All the the text fields where accented characters are meant to go, are in the body, 3 in the "normal" area and 3 in a portal. It all works fine now, see the scripts in my other message. It's become a really comfortable way to enter such characters except that the widely loathed copy/paste steps are necessary. -- Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Christoph Bouthillier post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks ------ Quote: > Dear Christophe, > If the field whose name you want to test is the button, the test will fail. > If the field is formatted to disable entry, the test will fail. Also, if the > test is for the field name AND the relationship: > Relationship__Name::Field_Name > ...the test will fail. It wants only the field name without the relationship > name. You might test by adding a step to set a global text field to > Status(CurrentFieldName) and placing the global temporarily on the layout. > You will see that only the name is returned, but it will work if the field > is in a portal row and the field is enterable. > John > > Dear Listeners: > > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via > c:\windows\charmap.exe) > > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. > Then > > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole field). > > It works fine. > > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the > cursor > > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use an > > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, too - > > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error message > > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > > Paste works fine, too. > > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > > -- > > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards > > Christoph Bouthillier > > post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com > > Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks > > ------
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:11:28 GMT

Christoph Bouthillie #10 / 10	status(currentfieldname) not working in portals? [resending this message since it dit not show up after some 8 hours in the list] Dear Howard Aaahh! Got it working inside and outside the portal with your help: The copying (of 1 accented character from a value list) Copy["g.accentcharacterdepot"] Go to Field And then the pasting anywhere in any text field: Set Field ["g.fieldnamestatus";"Status(CurrentFieldName)"] If [isempty("g.fieldnamestatus") ShowMessage["In order to paste an accented character the cursor must be in a text field."] Exit Script Go to Field[] Else Paste[] End If Thanks! -- Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Christoph Bouthillier post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks ------ Quote: > Hi Chris-- > I just tried it in Windows with FMP 5.5 and it works fine. I created a script > with one step: Set Field[gText, status(currentfieldname). Put a button on the > layout (not in the portal) that calls that script. Works when the cursor is in > any field, including portal fields. > I did a similar test script that starts with > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] to either shoe me an error message or > not. This also worked fine from portal fields. > Perhaps there is another step in your script before the test that is gtrr or > somehow otherwise exiting the portal before your test? > > Dear Howard: > > The status checking works fine in the non-portal portion of the layout, but > > not in the portal, alas ... but why? > > > Unless you must check for the cursor being in certain fields for your > > > particular solution, how about: > > > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] > > > > Dear Listeners: > > > > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > > > > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > > > > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > > > > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > > > > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > > > > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via > > c:\windows\charmap.exe) > > > > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. > > Then > > > > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole > > field). > > > > It works fine. > > > > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the > > cursor > > > > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use > > an > > > > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, > > too - > > > > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error > > message > > > > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > > > > Paste works fine, too. > > > > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Howard Schlossberg (818) 321-5176 > FM Pro Solutions Los Angeles, California > Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance -- Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Christoph Bouthillier post (at) no-no-spamtekstotaal.com Please remove "no-no-spam" when e-mailing me directly - Thanks ------ - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Quote: > Hi Chris-- > I just tried it in Windows with FMP 5.5 and it works fine. I created a script > with one step: Set Field[gText, status(currentfieldname). Put a button on the > layout (not in the portal) that calls that script. Works when the cursor is in > any field, including portal fields. > I did a similar test script that starts with > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] to either shoe me an error message or > not. This also worked fine from portal fields. > Perhaps there is another step in your script before the test that is gtrr or > somehow otherwise exiting the portal before your test? > > Dear Howard: > > The status checking works fine in the non-portal portion of the layout, but > > not in the portal, alas ... but why? > > > Unless you must check for the cursor being in certain fields for your > > > particular solution, how about: > > > If[isempty(status(currentfieldname))] > > > > Dear Listeners: > > > > I have a little problem with the above-mentioned feature. > > > > In a multilingual database I have set up a pop-up global field to hold 1 > > > > special character. Behind that is a value list that holds all special > > > > characters that are recognized by FMP (BTW these are only: > > > > ?a??????????De?????????????????Tt??Yy? which is > > > > strangely enough somewhat less than is available via > > c:\windows\charmap.exe) > > > > I let the user choose 1 character and copy it with a button beside it. > > Then > > > > there is another button that does a Paste (not selecting the whole > > field). > > > > It works fine. > > > > But I wanted to make it more user-friendly by telling the user if the > > cursor > > > > is "nowhere" and that he has to put it into one of the fields. So I use > > an > > > > If-statement to check for all relevant field names. That works fine, > > too - > > > > BUT it does not work in portals in the same layout. Then the error > > message > > > > comes up, although the cursor is active in a portal field, and a manual > > > > Paste works fine, too. > > > > Is there a trick to circumvent this? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Howard Schlossberg (818) 321-5176 > FM Pro Solutions Los Angeles, California > Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:11:27 GMT

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