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 92
When you include this script step in a FileMaker Server scheduled script and you do not select
Perform without dialog in the Edit Script dialog box, the text (NOT compatible) appears after the
script step. The script, however, will run. The behavior will be the same as if Perform without
dialog was selected. See Get(DocumentsPathListing) funciton for more information.
Notes
• When using the Export Records script step or Import Records script step in a
FileMaker
Server scheduled script, keep the following in mind:
• Any specified file must be in the FileMaker Server Documents folder, the temporary
folder, or a child folder of either the FileMaker
Server Documents folder or the
temporary folder. For example, the following are all valid paths for file.csv:
<Documents>/file.csv
<Temporary Path>/file.csv
<Documents>/Folder1/file.csv
<Temporary Path>/Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/Folder4/file.csv
• Any path specified that isn’t a complete path to the file (for example, anything other than
/Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Documents/<0 or more directories>/<filename> ) is
evaluated as being relative to the temporary path.
• Any paths that include “..” are considered invalid.
• Export to .fmp12 is not supported.
• For FileMaker Pro, if an absolute path is not specified in a script that will be executed from
FileMaker
Pro, the path is assumed to be relative to the location of the database file from
which the script was run. For example, if a script containing the Export Records script step
is run with the pathname
file:/export.tab, and the file running the script is /MyFiles/
Library/Books.fmp12, the exported file will be created as /MyFiles/Library/export.tab.
• If you are using a calculation that generates the file path for the XML file, you must use the
format used by the operating system for the full path. For example, the following are valid
paths:
Windows: driveletter:/directoryName/fileName
Mac OS: /Volumes/VolumeName/directoryName/fileName
If you are providing a cross-platform solution, you can use the Get(SystemPlatform) function to
identify the current platform and use the correct format for each platform.
• In FileMaker Go, exporting to .fmp12, XML, and Excel .xls formats is not supported.
Examples
Go to Layout ["Layout #4"]
Export Records [No dialog, "Contacts"]
Related topics
Import Records script step
Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
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