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 entire contents replaces the contents of a field. If you don't select this option, Insert
Calculated Result replaces only the selected portion of the current field, or inserts the result
at the insertion point. The default insertion point is at the end of the field's data.
• Select Go to target field or click Specify to specify the field to paste the calculated results
into. The target field must be present on the layout to paste successfully. If no field is active
when the script is performed, the step has no effect.
• Calculated result: Click Specify to define the calculation whose results will be inserted by
this script step. In the Specify Calculation dialog box, type the calculation you want
evaluated, or use the field list (on the left) and the functions list (on the right) with the
mathematical and text operators to build the calculation.
Note If the specified field does not exist on the layout where the script is being performed, Insert
Calculated Result returns an error code which can be captured with the
Get(LastError) function.
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Examples
The following script switches to a specific layout, pastes the current user name, then switches to a
different layout. Note that Insert Calculated Result only works when the field is on the active layout.
Go to Layout ["User Name Layout"]
Insert Calculated Result [Table1::UserNameField; Get(AccountName)]
Go to Layout ["Layout Number based on User Name"]
Insert From Index
Purpose
Pastes a value from the index into a field.
Format
Insert From Index [Select; <table::field>]
Options
• Select entire contents replaces the contents of a field. If you do not select this option,
Insert From Index inserts the result at the cursor position or at the end of the field's data.
• Select Go to target field or click Specify to specify the field to paste the index value into.
The field you specify may be of any type.
Compatibility
This script step is:
• not supported in web publishing
• not supported in a FileMaker Server scheduled script