Update 2 Aug 2025: the issue documented in this article has been resolved in FM 22 (a.k.a. FM 2025).
This article documents behavior in the current shipping version of the product, i.e., FM 21 (a.k.a. FM 2024).
Demo file: transaction_test.zip (requires FM 21 or later)
This is a follow-up to last month’s article on Modal Transactional Card Windows to address a very specific question. Given that transactions are scoped to a window, does a transaction properly revert when you close the window where the transaction was initiated?
At first glance it would appear that the answer is yes, but appearances can be deceiving, and today we have a demo file from Jonathan Jeffrey that can help us understand what is actually going on, and which I am sharing with his kind permission. Continue reading “Closing Windows During Transactions”