RE: Stepping through a found set in FileMaker Pro
RE: Stepping through a found set in FileMaker Pro
- Subject: RE: Stepping through a found set in FileMaker Pro
- From: "Sprague, Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:24:32 -0400
You might want to consider handing off the stepping proccess to FileMaker
Pro and use the ScriptMaker to do the work for you. Store your results in
global fields and then pass the data back to AppleScript as needed.
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From: Eric Schult
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:16 PM
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To: email@hidden; email@hidden
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Subject: RE: Stepping through a found set in FileMaker Pro
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> I have a basic script that steps through every record in a FileMaker Pro
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> database, but this gets rather slow with a database that has thousands
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> of records. Is there a way to address records in a found set?
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> I currently use this in a loop: go to record x of database dbname. Then
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> reference the current record to do what I need to do. Is there a similar
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> go to found record x of database dbname?
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Yes. Change "go to record x of database dbname" to "go to record x of
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document dbname" and you will only loop through the found records. In
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Filemaker, a document is a child of a database which includes only the
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found
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records.
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wes
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