Re: Problem with AppleScripting FileMaker
Re: Problem with AppleScripting FileMaker
- Subject: Re: Problem with AppleScripting FileMaker
- From: Don Rossi <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:09:39 -0400
I'm sitting in front of the Atlantic Ocean and nowhere near my Mac right now.
But, what happens when you tell the database object to “create new record”?
I wrote my handlers for FileMaker so many years ago and I haven't needed to
look at them. Your second example seems familiar to me. So, I suspect I've been
down the same road.
Sent from my iPad
> On Jun 20, 2018, at 4:56 AM, David Crowe <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I have found that the following code does not work:
>
>
> tell application "FileMaker Pro" to tell window "Meeting
> Tracker" to tell layout "Temporary Folder Contents"
> tell (create new record)
> set {cell "thePrefix", cell "theNumber", cell
> "thePartLetter", cell "theRevision", cell "FileName", cell "theRest", cell
> "theExtension", cell "AttachmentType", cell "FileSize", cell "Contributor"}
> to {theprefix, theNumber, thePartLetter, theRevision, theFileName, theRest,
> theExtension, theKind, item i of theFolderSizeList, theContributor}
> end tell
> end tell
>
>
>
> If I replace the innermost line with something like: set cell “thePrefix” to
> “abc”, I still get “Object not found”. Even just: cell “thePrefix” generates
> the error.
>
>
> On the other hand, the following code, which is equivalent, but more
> complicated, works:
>
> tell application "FileMaker Pro" to tell window "Meeting Tracker" to tell
> layout "Temporary Folder Contents"
> create new record
> tell last record — this works because FileMaker always creates new
> records at ‘the end'
> set {cell "thePrefix", cell "theNumber", cell "thePartLetter",
> cell "theRevision", cell "FileName", cell "theRest", cell "theExtension",
> cell "AttachmentType", cell "FileSize", cell "Contributor"} to {"abc", "def",
> "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqr", "stu", "vwx", "yz", "012"}
> end tell
> end tell
>
>
> Am I doing anything wrong? Or is the FileMaker AppleScript implementation
> just broken?
>
> - David Crowe
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