I guess I can’t speak the lingo after nearly 40 years with Panorama. I just want a .initialize dialog to go to a particular field (I got that!) and then open the search/select/find dialog. Nothing more than that. I always want to search that field in this DB. The procedure record dialog function does not help here. It does nothing. Trying to find this elusive answer in the help files has also confounded me.
I really don’t recommend have a database automatically open the search dialog (or any dialog) when opening, but it can be done. I just tried it and it works (please ignore the name of the database, I was debugging a problem reported by Hugo Alvarez and that database was handy right now).
Note that if you want the dialog to go straight to a particular field, you must set the Default Search preferences to Current field. This is a global setting, you can’t change it on a database by database basis, and you can’t control it in your procedure.
Again, I strongly advise against setting up a procedure like this. If you have a problem with this somewhere down the road, I’ll tell you that I recommended against doing this.