Re: Three simple FMP questions
Re: Three simple FMP questions
- Subject: Re: Three simple FMP questions
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 14:14:25 +0100
on 9/7/01 2:45 am, Shane Stanley at email@hidden wrote:
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> 1) Is there any way to get the file path of an open FMP document, so that
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> you can close it, then re-open it later? Or any other way to do the same
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> thing?
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No. This has been much complained about.
And the complaining has worked. There's a (FMP) script step in FileMaker 5.5
which will return the File's path. I've used this to set a field and then
accessed the field via AppleScipt.
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A database is all the data; a document is the found set of records.
Which works quite well once you've got to grips with this.
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I don't think it's to be found.
Unless you're using 5.5 or you have a consistent path to your database files
or you set a property or...
Simon Forster
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