Re: FileMaker AppleScript question...
Re: FileMaker AppleScript question...
- Subject: Re: FileMaker AppleScript question...
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:38:06 -0700
Note that there is no need to go to layout or put the global on any layout;
and you will get better performance if you don't.
This is the only statement you need if you are using a table reference:
Copy "whatever" to cell "gScriptParam" of table "Contacts"
> Bruce;
>
> You're right. I had a "go to cell" command, which seems to want to be
> in Browse mode. Removing that means that the old code works (i.e. go
> to layout .../copy aVariable to cell "aGlobalCell"/do script
> ScriptName).
>
> Thanks,
> David Crowe
>
>
> At 3:46 PM -0700 9/5/07, Bruce Robertson wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> But you don't have to be in browse mode to write to a global.
>>
>> Table references are your friend.
>>
>> Copy "whatever" to cell "gScriptParam" of table "Contacts"
>> -- works in browse, preview, find, or layout mode
>> -- there is no such thing as current record for a table
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