Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helpful Harry Newsgroups: comp.databases.filemaker Subject: Re: Which layout opens first? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:08:46 +1300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: <080120141308466909%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: //GzPlvjaF+YucHRtZfmDg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.4 (Carbon/OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.filemaker:1646 In article , Howard Schlossberg 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)