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Re: Which layout opens first?

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In article <lai1m9$an7$1@news.motzarella.org>, Howard Schlossberg
<howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/2014 2:00 PM, Bill Steele wrote:
> > Three layouts, one used rarely, but when the database is opened via
> > Filemaker server, that one always comes up first. OIs there a setting
> > somewhere for which layout defaults?
> 
> By default, it is the last one you were looking at before you closed the 
> file on your local machine and moved it over to the server.
> 
>  From the File > File Options menu, you can set which layout to switch 
> to upon opening.

If you need the database to do something as well as switch Layouts
(e.g. sort the records, find "today's" records, etc.), you can create
an Opening Script, also set in the File Options / Preferences to be run
when opening the database, which includes the Go To Layout command.

Helpful Harry   :o)

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Which layout opens first? Bill Steele <ws21@cornel.edu> - 2014-01-07 17:00 -0500
  Re: Which layout opens first? Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2014-01-07 15:13 -0800
    Re: Which layout opens first? Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2014-01-08 13:08 +1300
    Re: Which layout opens first? Bill Steele <ws21@cornel.edu> - 2014-01-08 15:07 -0500
      Re: Which layout opens first? Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2014-01-09 09:28 +1300
        Re: Which layout opens first? John Hanson <crayz9000@gmail.com> - 2014-01-08 16:16 -0800
          Re: Which layout opens first? Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2014-01-09 15:40 +1300
        Re: Which layout opens first? clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2014-01-09 09:44 +0100

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