Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 21-5. The Save Records As Snapshot Link dialog box looks suspiciously similar to any
old Save dialog box. And it does indeed save a file, just one without any actual data.
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Current record
. If you want to draw attention to a particular record in the found set,
make sure that record is the active record when you create the link. That record will be
selected when the Snapshot Link is opened.
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Toolbar state
. Either showing or not.
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Mode
. Create the Snapshot Link in Preview mode and, you guessed it, that's what the
user will see. Create it while in Browse or Layout mode, and the user will get Browse
mode. You can't create Snapshot Links in Find mode.
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Sort Order
. However you last sorted the current found set is retained.
Snapshot Links are slick, but it's important to understand what they don't include.
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Your last find
. The Snapshot Link contains a list of record IDs. That list may be the res-
ult of a find for every customer who bought a pogo stick, but it's current only at the time
the Snapshot was created. If you open that snapshot in six weeks, new pogo stick cus-
tomers won't be on the list, and any deleted customers won't be magically restored.
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Data
. Snapshot Links are instructions for FileMaker, not unlike a script. They tell
FileMaker something like “Go to this layout, show me records 1, 3, and 5, and sort them
