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
Fields script steps
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Options
• Select Specify target field or click Specify to specify the serial number field on which the
script step will operate. The field you specify must be defined as an auto-entry serial
number field.
• Calculated result: Click Specify to enter the next serial value or create a calculation to
determine the next serial value.
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Description
Allows you to use the Manage Scripts feature to update the value. You can define this script step to
use any calculation expression to determine the next serial value of a field that has been defined as
an auto-entry serial number field. The calculation always evaluates to a text result.
For example, you might want to reset the next serial value after you do one of the following:
• import records into a FileMaker Pro database with an auto-entry serial number field
• delete multiple serialized numbers from a FileMaker Pro database
Notes
• This script step affects the definition of the field you specify instead of the actual
contents of the field that you specify.
• This script step can operate on multiple files. If you specify a field in another file, then
FileMaker Pro attempts to update the serial number for the specified field in the other
file. To specify a field in another file, define a relationship to that file and use Specify
target field to select a field from that file.
Examples
The following example calculates the number of the next available invoice ID. If the invoice ID
contains non-numeric data, then the calculation would need to be more sophisticated to maintain the
numeric and non-numeric data.
Go to Record/Request/Page [Last]
Set Next Serial Value [Table1::Invoice ID; Table1::InvoiceID + 1]
Insert Text
Purpose
Pastes a text value into a field in the current record.
Format
Insert Text [Select; <table::field>; “<text>”]