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File Maker Pro Adv: Bypass browse mode on open

Hi Experts,

How do you bypass browse mode on opening a FileMaker Pro file?

In other words, I want my project to go straight into find mode when I first open it. The reason for this is because I have an external database view with over 6000+ records and I don't want the project to query all records right away.

I tried OnLayoutEnter > Enter Find Mode, but that still displays at least one record and then goes into find mode...

I don't want it to query anything when I first open the layout.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.

Will Loving

One way to handle this is to run a script on opening that puts the window off-screen, goes into Find Mode and then resizes the Window. That might look like this:

Move/Resize Window[ Current Window; Height: -200; Width: -200; Top: 0; Left: 0]
Enter Find Mode [ ]
Adjust Window [ Resize to Fit ]

Peter Harris

Also, you can setup what happens when the file opens under File > File Options (changing to a certain layout and running scripts).

slinkygn

Instead of doing it OnLayoutEnter, you'll probably have better luck trying OnFirstWindowOpen. (That's in FM 13; it's OnWindowOpen if you're in FM 12.)

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rmartes

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Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies.

Will loving, yes that is what I'm trying to accomplish: have the user input a single criteria. I tried OnFirstWindowOpen and the custom dialog with an input, but couldn't quite get it to act the way I wanted it to. I ended up creating a separate search layout. please refer to this ticket:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28403660/FileMaker-Perform-find-on-unrelated-table-field.html

rmartes

ASKER

Very helpful!

Will Loving

Well, as I noted in the other question, if you went to a different layout not based on Employees, ran a Custom Dialog to get the SSN (use a Global field somewhere for the Input field), went into Find Mode, THEN switched layouts to Employees you could then run the Find without having to load Employees into Browse.