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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Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Description
Use this script step to ensure consistency and automate data entry. The active record is the last
record where FileMaker Pro performed some activity, such as pasting text or moving into a field with
the
Go to Field script step.
Note If the specified field does not exist on the layout where the script is being performed, Insert
From Last Visited returns an error code which can be captured with the
Get(LastError) function.
Examples
Go to Record/Request/Page [First]
Enter Find Mode []
Go to Field [Company Name]
Insert From Last Visited []
Insert Current Date
Purpose
Pastes the current system date into the specified field.
Format
Insert Current Date [Select; <table::field>]
Options
• Select entire contents replaces the contents of a field with the current date. If you do not
select this option, Insert Current Date adds the value of the current date to the end of the
field's existing data.
• Select Go to target field or click Specify to specify the field to paste the date into.
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Notes
• To perform a calculation with the current date, make sure the receiving field is defined
as a date field.
• If the specified field does not exist on the layout where the script is being performed,
Insert Current Date returns an error code which can be captured with the
Get(LastError)
function.
• In a web-published database, use a Commit Record/Request script step after an Insert
Current Date script step to update the record in the browser window.