Re: Three simple FMP questions
Re: Three simple FMP questions
- Subject: Re: Three simple FMP questions
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:31:16 +1000
On 9/7/01 11:14 PM +1000, Simon Forster, email@hidden, wrote:
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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.
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And the complaining has worked. There's a (FMP) script step in FileMaker 5.5
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which will return the File's path. I've used this to set a field and then
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accessed the field via AppleScipt.
It still seems a bit extraordinary that there's no direct way. I'm trying to
think of another reasonably scriptable app that doesn't let you get the path
to an open document directly.
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> I don't think it's to be found.
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Unless you're using 5.5 or you have a consistent path to your database files
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or you set a property or...
All implying you know what databases are going to be open. But for something
like a backup script, that may not be the case.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden