Re: FileMaker AppleScript question...
Re: FileMaker AppleScript question...
- Subject: Re: FileMaker AppleScript question...
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:29:33 -0600
Bruce;
What I'm trying to do is get one generic FileMaker application to
call a script in a separate file without any connections between them
(e.g. relationships). This is because there may be many such files
and I want to keep the connections between them as simple as possible.
Since this means there is no easy way to pass parameters, I put the
parameter into a global text field with a standard name and then call
a script which has a name which is established by an AppleScript
configuration routine.
The problem is that it would be easy to have the script go to browse
mode, but it has to be called after the global field is written to.
I think that "go to current record" will be a good solution for me.
The actual application is that my FileMaker application performs
processing on exported data to convert to web pages, upload them and
so on. The exported data can come from a number of distinct FileMaker
applications and I don't want to have to add relationships and
scripts every time I want to export from a new database.
It's an experiment in separating data from presentation as much as possible.
Thanks,
David Crowe
At 1:32 PM -0700 9/4/07, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> Is there a reliable way to force FileMaker into Browse mode apart
from running a FileMaker script.
The example in the FileMaker documentation:
tell application "FileMaker"
do menu menu item "Browse Mode" of menu "View"
end
doesn't work if a database, table or window is specified, which means
that there's no guarantee it will put the right window in the right
mode.
- David Crowe
First of all, go to current record will do it:
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
tell window "Cross_tabtest"
go to current record
end tell
end tell
In addition to Gary's point about calling a script, what is the big picture
here? What are you trying to do?
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