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
Miscellaneous script steps
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Miscellaneous script steps
Miscellaneous script steps allow you to script miscellaneous actions, like:
• displaying a dialog box that presents the user with different options
• playing the system alert sound
• launching a web browser and displaying a specified URL
• sending internet email
• sending a DDE command (Windows) or an event to another application
• exiting the application
Tip Use the Comment script step to annotate your scripts so your colleagues can understand them.
Show Custom Dialog
Purpose
Displays a custom message dialog box, with custom text and labels.
Format
Show Custom Dialog [<title>; <message text>; Table1::input field 1;...]
Options
Click Specify to display the “Show Custom Dialog” Options dialog box, where you can set the dialog
box title, message text, and buttons, and specify up to three fields to use for input or display.
General options
• Title lets you specify the title of the custom dialog box. You can enter literal text or click
Specify to create the dialog box title from a calculation.
• Message lets you specify the message of the dialog box.You can enter literal text or
click Specify to create the message text from a calculation.
• Button Labels let you specify how many buttons (up to three) to display in the custom
dialog box and labels for these buttons. If you leave a button label blank, the button
does not appear in the custom dialog box. If you leave all button titles blank, an OK
button displays in the lower-right corner of the custom dialog box.
Input Field options
• Select Show input field <n> to activate an input field.
• Select Specify to choose the field for input. Each input area maps to one field.
• Select Use password character (*) to mask text as it is entered, or as it is displayed
from the database. This option obscures data being input into the custom dialog box or
being displayed, but does not alter the actual data as it is stored in the database.
• Use Label to specify a field label (the text that will identify this input to the user.) You
can enter literal text or create the label from a calculation.