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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ILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 133
Description
You can enter a phone number or specify a calculation to create a phone number. You can also
choose whether to use the current phone preferences based on your current location. You can
specify number, text, calculation, or global fields, and letters within the phone number are translated
to numbers (except for
q and z).
Important The Dial Phone script step is not supported in Mac OS X.
Examples
The following script repeatedly dials the phone number in the PhoneNumber field, up to ten times.
Set Field [Contacts::gCount; 0]
Loop
Dial Phone [No dialog; Contacts::PhoneNumber]
Set Field [Contacts::gCount; Contacts::gCount + 1]
Exit Loop If [Contacts::gCount > 10]
End Loop
This script dials local directory assistance.
Dial Phone [No dialog; 411]
Install Menu Set
Purpose
Changes the menu set based on conditions established in the script.
Format
Install Menu Set [specified menu set name]
Options
Use As File Default overrides the file’s default menu set specified in the Manage Custom Menus
dialog box with the menu set specified in this script step. Once you close the file, the default menu
set reverts to the one specified in the Manage Custom Menus dialog box. Select the menu set that
you want the script step to install from the list.
Compatibility
This script step is:
• not supported in web publishing
• not supported in a FileMaker Server scheduled script
Examples
The following example changes the installed menu set on the menu bar to Custom Menu Set #1.
Install Menu Set [“Custom Menu Set #1”]