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1. Re: Maintain Sort Order between different layouts
Filemaker keeps the sort order (and found set) when switching between layouts based on the same Table Occurence and within the same window. If the sort order for each layout is static (you always want Layout #1 and #2 to sort a certain way), then you can use an onLayoutLoad script trigger to maintain the sort order. If it's dynamic, you could use separate windows or create an additional table occurence from the table and based the layout on that.
There are fancier (ie more complicated) ways, but they're not worth going into unless you really really need them.
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2. Re: Maintain Sort Order between different layouts
Thank you for your answer David, but I don't understand this problem. I have attempted another way of solving the problem but that is not working either.
Background: Layout #1 is a set of records imported into FMP 12 from an excel spreadsheet. Therefore, the order of the records is creation order. The ID # field is 1 thru 1232.
I created a Report that sorted those records by last name, first name, and some other fields. When I switched back to Layout #1 the records had been sorted the same as the Report. I chose the sort option and unsorted them and they returned to creation order.
Went back to the Report which was in its requested sort order (i.e. last name, first name, etc). So far so good. Then went back to Layout #1 and again the records had been changed to the same sort order as the Report.
My questions are these, why would FMP change the record order of the table? What is prompting this behavior?
I thought perhaps I would explain, my goals here. I am trying to create a database for my book library. This would include a table of the books where each record is in its creation order imported from excel.
I need a layout to input each new record, automatically number the new record and will update that table and any reports I would create. The reports would be list of books sorted by author, list of book sorted by type, etc.
Thanks for any assistance.
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3. Re: Maintain Sort Order between different layouts
You are changing the sort order of a found set, not the table. If both layouts share the same found set, changes to the found set on one layout will also affect what you see on the other.
Here's a tutorial on Table Occurrences that may help. In one part of the tutorial, you get two layouts showing the same records, but with independent sort orders:
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