Re: Filemaker Advanced vs Pro
Re: Filemaker Advanced vs Pro
- Subject: Re: Filemaker Advanced vs Pro
- From: Michael Tompsett <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:12:57 +0100
Thanks for all the suggestions, they will be used in some form from now on.
Turns out the user had selected the FINDER instead of Filemaker Pro when asked, so whenever the scripts were being run it was trying to use the finders dictionary.
In the end this was fixed by clearing out the offending reference linking FM Pro to the Finder from the com.apple.applescript.plist
Once this was done the app asked again to Choose Application when the first applescript was run so it was just a case of selecting Filemaker Pro.
Oh and Wayne, there were over 700 applescripts to go through, many with multiple tell app filemaker statements in the scripts, and all this has to be done on a slow VNC connection, where there's a second delay between typing or moving the mouse and anything happening on the screen, so seriously searching through 700 scripts and changing them would have taken a very long and frustrating time indeed!!
Thanks for all the help and solutions, they are certainly appreciated for avoiding this issue in the future.
Michael
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> 1. Filemaker Advanced vs Pro (Michael Tompsett)
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> 4. Re: Filemaker Advanced vs Pro (Shane Stanley)
> 5. set verbal reminder for events in ical using applescript
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> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:20:49 +0100
> From: Michael Tompsett <email@hidden>
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> OK, run into a slight issue. We have a filemaker database that has quite a few applescripts which run from within the application. The database is (and always has been) developed in Filemaker Pro Advanced.
>
> As a result, all the scripts start off with....
>
> Tell app "Filemaker Pro advanced"
>
> When the scripts are run by people using Filemaker Pro (rather than Advanced) there has never been an issue. The first time they have been run it asks to locate "Filemaker Pro Advanced" and they then just select Filemaker Pro from the applications list and everything works from there on in.
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> Now on one machine, whose setup is the same as the others, doesn't do this - I am wondering if someone selected the wrong application. Is there some sort of reset to get it too ask again?
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> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:56:21 -0500
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> I don't know if there is a way to fix the ones that have chosen the wrong app, but to avoid this altogether I have started using :
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> "set myName to the name of me
> tell application myName..."
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> Where myName is taking place of the appropriate FileMaker version. This worksr for us.
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> HTH,
>
> John
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> On Mar 19, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Michael Tompsett <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> OK, run into a slight issue. We have a filemaker database that has quite a few applescripts which run from within the application. The database is (and always has been) developed in Filemaker Pro Advanced.
>>
>> As a result, all the scripts start off with....
>>
>> Tell app "Filemaker Pro advanced"
>>
>> When the scripts are run by people using Filemaker Pro (rather than Advanced) there has never been an issue. The first time they have been run it asks to locate "Filemaker Pro Advanced" and they then just select Filemaker Pro from the applications list and everything works from there on in.
>>
>> Now on one machine, whose setup is the same as the others, doesn't do this - I am wondering if someone selected the wrong application. Is there some sort of reset to get it too ask again?
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> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:22:00 +1100
> From: Wayne Melrose <email@hidden>
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> Another simple way to avoid this issue is have your FileMaker developer rename his app to FileMaker Pro (remove advanced from the app name)
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> Again, doesn't fix your problem now, but seriously, it can't take that long to go onto each script and remove ' Advanced' from each script. (Or do what john sugests) Then, problem solved once and for all.
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> On 20/03/2013, at 6:56 AM, John Haley <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I don't know if there is a way to fix the ones that have chosen the wrong app, but to avoid this altogether I have started using :
>>
>> "set myName to the name of me
>> tell application myName..."
>>
>> Where myName is taking place of the appropriate FileMaker version. This worksr for us.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Michael Tompsett <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, run into a slight issue. We have a filemaker database that has quite a few applescripts which run from within the application. The database is (and always has been) developed in Filemaker Pro Advanced.
>>>
>>> As a result, all the scripts start off with....
>>>
>>> Tell app "Filemaker Pro advanced"
>>>
>>> When the scripts are run by people using Filemaker Pro (rather than Advanced) there has never been an issue. The first time they have been run it asks to locate "Filemaker Pro Advanced" and they then just select Filemaker Pro from the applications list and everything works from there on in.
>>>
>>> Now on one machine, whose setup is the same as the others, doesn't do this - I am wondering if someone selected the wrong application. Is there some sort of reset to get it too ask again?
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> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:26:41 +1100
> From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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> On 20/03/2013, at 6:20 AM, Michael Tompsett <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> We have a filemaker database that has quite a few applescripts which run from within the application. The database is (and always has been) developed in Filemaker Pro Advanced.
>>
>> As a result, all the scripts start off with....
>>
>> Tell app "Filemaker Pro advanced"
>
> The tell block is unnecessary if they are run from within FileMaker -- you can just leave it out.
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> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:03:41 -0700
> From: Porter Slice <email@hidden>
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> Subject: set verbal reminder for events in ical using applescript
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> I would like to be able to be verbally reminded of events in ical with an
> applescript, is there any way I can do this.
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> Thanks in advance for any help,
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> Porter Slice
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> From: Porter Slice <email@hidden>
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> I would like to set my mac to ping the static ip address of my phone every
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> Thanks in advance for your help,
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