I would like to have a script, triggered by leaving/saving an entry field, that figures out itself from which field it was triggered, if the field’s value was empty, and if so, sets the field value to a certain default value – to avoid having to define that script a dozen times, one for each field.

Whatever I tried, FM won’t accept the Self() function in that place – neither as a script parameter not in the formula to get/set the field value.

I’d like to know if there IS a way – that I’m obviously missing – to achive this using the Self() function, and if so, how to use it correctly.

Many thanks in advance for any hints on this.

Pete

I use Self() all the time in the “Auto-Enter” -> “Calculate value” (with Do not replace existing value turned off) to strip pasted in text of it’s formating: TextFormatRemove ( Self )

… especially email address fields where people tend to paste bright blue and underlined formated test.

You can create custom calcs to do other things upon data entry. The example I’ve seen before is to re-format a phone number to your standard convention.

1. pass a Script Parameter “self” to the sort script;
… i.e., you’re passing the text of the button…
2. in the script set $$sortorder to the param;
3. conditionally format the button you clicked with self = $$sortorder

You can extend this to include an up or down triangle for ascending/descending sort, using a dingbat font that you hide/show by changing its text color to match the background or not. However, this method seems to require individually naming each object, which is kind of a bummer. I.e. you can nicely use conditional formatting for this part, but not the Self function.

Take the case of a list where there is limited space for a field. When a user hovers their mouse over the field, a tooltip appears that displays the entire field contents.

This was done in the past by defining the tooltip with the field name. Not any more – set the tooltip to Self. Then duplicate the field (with its tooltip), specify the field for the duplicate and the tooltip will display the contents of the new field.

Now all that is just great. But what about existing fields? Set all the tooltips individually? No way. Select ALL the fields you want to add these tooltips to, right-clic, select Set Tooltip… and specify Self. All fields will display their individual field contents. Cool or what?

Geoff