Just noticed that today the Context(“ViewType”) = “Form” in the new desktop UX isn’t be honored. It was previously, so something in a recent release must have tweaked things.

I believe if you were to do this, it would work no matter what. The rational being: You’re telling the system, “Leave where we are and go here.” That should work, no matter what - I would imagine. SOLUTION to Context(“ViewType”) = “Form” not working in new Desktop UX Turns out there’s a settin…

Context("ViewType") = "Form" -- Not honored in new desktop UX

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SkrOYC March 8, 2023, 2:49pm 3

It’s working on my side, try without the double quotes inside CONTEXT()

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Context("ViewType") = "Form" -- Not honored in new desktop UX

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