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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Compatibility
This script step is:
• not supported in web publishing
• not supported in a FileMaker Server scheduled script
Description
The custom message dialog box can take user input for up to three fields in the database, and
display data from up to three fields in the database. The script pauses as long as the custom dialog
box stays on the screen. Fields used for input can be of type text, number, date, time, timestamp, or
container. Your custom dialog box can also have up to three buttons, with custom button titles.
Use the Get(LastMessageChoice) function to determine which button the user presses.
• 1 represents the rightmost button
• 2 represents the middle (or second) button
• 3 represents the leftmost button
Button 1, the default or rightmost button, is the only button that will write information from the input
fields to a file.
Notes
• If values entered into input fields don’t match the field type, a validation error message
displays. The user must resolve validation errors before the dialog box can be closed.
See
Defining field validation for more information.
• The fields you specify don’t need to appear on the current layout. Show Custom Dialog
input fields are independent of layouts, similar to the Set Field script step.
• Data can't be inserted into calculation or summary fields.
• As with Set Field script step, Show Custom Dialog will bypass the Allow entry into
field field formatting option.
• Data entry via the Show Custom Dialog script step is limited by any access privileges
criteria that may be in place. (Select Run script with full access privileges to enable
the script for all users.)
• (Windows) You can create a keyboard shortcut for a custom dialog box button by
placing an ampersand before the shortcut key letter in the button label. For example, to
create a keyboard shortcut ‘D’ (Alt+D) for a button labeled ‘Done’, type the label
‘&Done’.