On Mar 19, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Steve Lemond wrote:
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Subject: Doing a Find Plus a Little More
She usually wants to do a Find for a particular vendor type. After
entering Find mode, she selects the vendor type from the drop-down
list in that field and hits Enter.
What I'd like to do, in addition to that, is capture the vendor type
she's searching for and use that info to bring the appropriate tab
control to the front. But I'm danged if I can figure out how to get a
grip on it from Find mode. Any hints?
You should be able to do this using a scripted find. Provide a FIND
button linked to your find script. Provide a find layout with just
the fields you want her to search on. You can even have one of the
fields a calculated field (I frequently concatenate the Vendor and
Contact fields, so the find works even if the record had these entered
backwards). The script can take the value from the vendor type and
stuff it in a global field. I frequently display something like
vendor type using the global field in the header of the search
results. This lets a printout of the results be somewhat self
documenting.
