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 From URL
- Insert Current Date
- Insert Current Time
- Insert Current User Name
- Insert Picture
- Insert QuickTime
- Insert Audio/Video
- Insert PDF
- Insert File
- Replace Field Contents
- Relookup Field Contents
- Export Field Contents
- Records script steps
- New Record/Request
- Duplicate Record/Request
- Delete Record/Request
- Delete Portal Row
- Delete All Records
- Open Record/Request
- Revert Record/Request
- Commit Records/Requests
- Copy Record/Request
- Copy All Records/Requests
- Import Records
- Export Records
- Save Records As Excel
- Save Records As PDF
- Save Records As Snapshot Link
- Found Sets script steps
- Windows script steps
- Files script steps
- Accounts script steps
- Spelling script steps
- Open Menu Item script steps
- Miscellaneous script steps
FILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 186
Originated in
FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier
Description
• FileMaker Pro sends DDE execute commands, but does not receive them.
• Because DDE is a Windows feature, if you run a script containing a Send DDE execute
script step on a Mac
OS based computer, the script step is ignored. (An error code is
generated, which can be captured with the Get(LastError) function.)
• When a FileMaker Pro script first establishes a DDE connection, the connection stays open
to execute subsequent script steps for the same service name and topic. If the script
includes another DDE Execute script step using a different service name or topic,
FileMaker
Pro closes the current connection and opens another with the new service name
and topic. All open connections close when the script is completed.
Examples
The following script opens a URL in Internet Explorer. (Internet Explorer must be open when this
step executes.)
Send DDE Execute [Service Name: "iexplore"; Topic: "WWW_OpenURL";
Commands: "www.filemaker.com"]
Related topics
Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
Contents
Perform AppleScript (Mac OS)
Purpose
Sends AppleScript commands to another application.
Format
Perform AppleScript [“<applescript text>”]
Options
Click Specify to display the “Perform AppleScript” Options dialog box, where you can set the
following options.
• Calculated AppleScript lets you create a calculation to use as the AppleScript text.
• Native AppleScript lets you manually enter the text of an AppleScript (up to 30000
characters). Indenting of repeat loops and conditional statements is not supported.
Instant Web Publishing No
Runtime solution Yes
Where the script step runs Supported