re: Telling FilemakerPro to open a network
re: Telling FilemakerPro to open a network
- Subject: re: Telling FilemakerPro to open a network
- From: James Ducker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:09:51 -0500 (EST)
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I know how to tell FMPro to open a file:
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tell application "FileMaker Pro" to open ".....""
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But I want to open a file that is being hosted by our FMPro server. Any
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ideas?
When wanting to give users easy access to a remote database I always create a new FMPro document with a startup script that calls up the hosted database from the network. The ordinary 'open' script step will do nicely for this - when specifying the file just go to 'hosts' as you normally would to open a network database.
Setting this script to run at document launch (via the Preferences > Document dialog) means that all a user needs to do in order to access the network database -- is double-click on the new document.
The document could of course be modified to open more than one file at once, to provide an intelligible error message if the host is inacessible, to wish the user a good morning, and so on...
Like you I know of no way of achieving this with AppleScript, but then using this method I've never seen the need.
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