Okay--NOW I get it. I have never noticed that option in
the perform script layout. (Duh.)
Thank you very much--that helps a lot.
Sometimes the answer is quite simple--but only once you know
what the answer is. : )
Thanks to all who replied.
Sue
On Sep 17, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Geoff Graham wrote:
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
