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Re: FileMaker AppleScript question...
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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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