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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Examples
To launch the Notepad application, select the open document/application message, click File, and
specify notepad.exe. The following script step appears in the Script Definition dialog box:
Send Event ["aevt"; "odoc"; "NOTEPAD.EXE"]
To open a document created by another application, select the open document/application
message, click File, and specify the file (for example image.bmp). The following script step appears
in the Script Definition dialog box:
Send Event ["aevt"; "odoc"; "image.bmp"]
Comment
Purpose
Adds comments to the list of steps in the script.
Format
#<comment text>
Options
Click Specify to display a dialog box to enter the comment text.
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Description
Use comments to document your script. Comments appear in bold and are prefaced with a #.
Comments are present only when you are viewing the script and do not appear when the script is
performed.
Note Comments print in italics.
Examples
Set Error Capture [On]
Perform Find [Restore]
If [Get (LastError) = 401]
#If the current error is 401, nothing was found
Show Custom Dialog ["No records were found."]
If [Get (LastMessageChoice) = 1]
Modify Last Find
Else
Enter Browse Mode []
End If
End If