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Re: Alert on new FileMaker Record creation
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Re: Alert on new FileMaker Record creation


  • Subject: Re: Alert on new FileMaker Record creation
  • From: ehsan saffari <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:19:02 -0600

On 30/11/2001 10:31, Robbie Newton <email@hidden> wrote:

>I have a sort of bug report9 database for our company FileMaker solution
>that certain employees can request new features. But I have to ask them to
>send me an email every time they enter a new one because I cant figure out
>how to make FileMaker alert me if there is a new record (bug) entered into
>the bug report database. I was just thinking this morning that maybe I could
>use AppleScript to write something like that. Does anyone have any idea if
>this is possible before I spend hours trying to figure it out?

Not an AppleScript from within FMP (I wish!), but you can have a stay
open applet with an idle handler that periodically checks the named
(open) db's record count and should it have changed since last check,
then throw an alert.

cheers
ehsan


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