PopupMenuScript

PopupMenuScript and PopupMenuField

Reactor’s Popup menus come in two variations: PopupMenuScript and PopupMenuField. Both can be activated and navigated by keyboard on the Mac, in contrast to Filemaker’s own Popup menus. PopupMenuField requires the name of a field whose contents are to be updated when a value is selected, whereas PopupMenuScript does not require a field but does require the name of a script.

PopupMenuScript

PopupMenuScript is ideal for navigation. When an item is chosen from the popup menu, a value is passed to the nominated script as a parameter. You can pick up the value in the script and use “Go to Object” to navigate to the desired Object.

PopupMenuScript( valueListOptions ; startValue ; scriptOnSelect {; status ; bgColor})

Parameters:

1	valueList*	The list of values in the Popup menu. See note below.
2	startValue	Starting value if there is to be a default. Can be a field, or a calculation, global variable etc.
3	scriptOnSelect	Name of the script to run when the user selects a value.
4	status (opt)	Text or name of a field containing “enabled” (the default), “disabled”, or “hidden”, or a calc which returns one of those 3 values.
5	bgColor (opt)	Default is white, but you can specify the color: see “Background Color” in the “Basics” section.

Example:

Notes

*The Value List can be:

• a simple text list e.g. "Details¶Contacts¶Enrolments"
• a reference to a Value list e.g. ValueListItems ( “DemoFile” ; “Tab Choice” )
• or, if you wish to differentiate what the user sees from the actual value, you can use the following syntax to pass back an ID equating to the literal value: "Values=John¶Mary¶Sam"&"IDs=524¶768¶231"

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