The problem is that I have a company logo on every page of the
intranet which acts as a button to return the user to the main page.
Due to client request, I have many scripts set up to return a user
from any new layout that a script takes them to, to the page layout
they started from (often not the main menu).
What I find is happening is that some users are starting a script
that allows them to go view or enter information on a different
layout, then instead of clicking "continue" which would take them
back to the original layout where they started the script, they click
on the company logo to get back to the main menu page. Meanwhile the
script that was in mid-execution remains in progress, essentially
waiting for a continue (Resume script) command that never arrives. I
want to set the button on the logo so that it quits any script in
progress, then switches the user to the main menu. But so far, my
attempts to do this using the Exit Script command have not worked.
Since users are viewing the intranet without access to the left
control panel (where the Continue script button always shows if there
is a script in progress), they do not realize that any script is
still in mid-run (not that they would necessarily quit out of it
anyway).
I am not sure this is a major problem, but for some reason the
intranet file keeps freezing up due to use via iwp, requiring a re-
establishment of iwp operations through the Filemaker Server
software. These mid-script hang-ups are something that I think may
be contributing to, or causing, the freeze-up problems.
Thanks for any help.
Sue
On Sep 17, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Richard S. Russell wrote:
On 2008 Sep 17, at 15:55, 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, it's not clear (at least to me) what you WANT to have happen.
Let's say you're running the script "Geniuslike Process". It
contains multiple steps including, presumably, some kind of pause
in the action to permit the user to take some kind of action. One
such kind of action is to click on a button that activates the "Go
to Main Menu" script.
What do you want to occur at that point with "Geniuslike Process"?
Do you want it to continue running, only now from the vantage point
of the main-menu screen?
Or do you want it to quit (in which case the "Halt Script" command
will cause ALL your scripts to terminate)?
Or is there some kind of condition where you might want it to quit
in some cases but not in others?
