Script Steps Reference
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About script steps
- Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
- Control script steps
- Navigation script steps
- Editing script steps
- Fields script steps
- Set Field
- Set Field By Name
- Set Next Serial Value
- Insert Text
- Insert Calculated Result
- Insert From Index
- Insert From Last Visited
- Insert Current Date
- Insert Current Time
- Insert Current User Name
- Insert Picture
- Insert QuickTime
- Insert Object (Windows)
- Insert File
- Update Link (Windows)
- Replace Field Contents
- Relookup Field Contents
- Export Field Contents
- Records script steps
- Found Sets script steps
- Windows script steps
- Files script steps
- Accounts script steps
- Spelling script steps
- Open Menu Item script steps
- Miscellaneous script steps
Files script steps
F
ILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 100
Set Use System Formats
Purpose
Allows the user to choose between the formats stored with the file or the user's current system
formats.
Format
Set Use System Formats [On/Off]
Options
• On instructs FileMaker Pro to use the current system formats.
• Off instructs FileMaker Pro to use the formats saved with the file.
Compatibility
This script step is:
• not supported in web publishing
• not supported in a FileMaker Server scheduled script
Description
Each FileMaker Pro database file stores the date, time, and number formatting of the computer on
which the database was created. These regional settings may be different from the system formats
currently set on your computer.
When you use the current system formats, you don't change the formats saved with the file – you
simply enter and view data in a format that's familiar to you. For example, if a database was created
in Australia, where dates are usually written day-month-year, and you open it in the United States,
where dates are usually written month-day-year, FileMaker Pro alerts you that the system formats
are different.
A startup script that uses the Set Use System Formats script step can be used to control how
FileMaker
Pro handles date, time, and number formats for a file that has system formats that are
different from the current system formats.
Examples
This script could be a startup script that checks the system language before using system formats.
If [Get (SystemLanguage) = “Japanese”]
Set Use System Formats [On]
End If