Sue,
I think Tom means the button itself, on the layout, has 4 options as
to how it calls the script it is assigned. These options are Halt,
Exit, Resume, and Pause. The default when you assign a script to a
button is Pause, which means it will pause the current script while
you are running the new one. What you want is to Exit the current
script when the new one is called. Look for it in Layout mode when you
are configuring your button.
geoff
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Sue wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Tom, but this doesn't work. If I include
Exit Script as the first step in my go to main menu script, the
computer does just that--exits the script that is supposed to take
the person to the main menu--NOT the script that was midway to
completion. So, essentially, that step disables the Return to Main
Menu button. If I put the Exit Script step at the end of the
script, it also does nothing.
Am I not understanding what you are suggesting? If so, sorry for
being dense and please try to explain what you mean a different way.
Sue
On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Tom Elliott wrote:
Sue,
In the Button Setup dialog for Perform Script you have 4 options
for what happens to any currently running script: Halt, Exit,
Resume and (the default) Pause. Sounds like the option you want for
your Main Menu button is "Exit".
cheers
Tom
On 17 Sep 2008, at 6:37, Sue wrote:
Hi folks,
I continue to have some issues with a filemaker instant web
publishing set up and I think it may be due to users initiating
one script, then clicking on a button that executes a different
script to return them to the main menu before they have completed
all the steps in the script they started.
I can not seem to figure a way to ensure that if they click the
button to view the main menu, any in-process script is
discontinued and exited first or as part of the script that takes
them back to the main menu.
Can anyone suggest a solution? I suspect there must be an easy
way to do this, but I can't seem to figure it out. If I use the
exit script command at the beginning of my return to main menu
script, it exits that script. When I put it at the end of the
script, it still does not exit the partially completed script.
Thanks for any tips.
Sue
