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FILEMAKER PRO HELP 1053
Originated in
FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier
Description
You can set the import order and use the Specify import order option, or perform this script step
with the dialog box so the user can set new criteria, such as importing data as a new table.
If the source file is open, the found set is imported; if not, all records in the source table are
imported.
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) function for more information.
If you schedule a FileMaker Server script to do any of the following, you will receive an error:
• importing records to new table
• importing records from a folder
• importing images to a container field
Notes
• When using the Import Records script step or Export 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.
• 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.
• Support for importing photos from a digital camera or device has been removed from
FileMaker
Pro.
• If a script created in an earlier version of FileMaker Pro contains an Import Records
[Digital Camera] script step, the step is commented as obsolete. You can remove the
step, but you can’t edit it.
• If a button references an Import Records [Digital Camera] script step, the button is
disabled and the Import Records script step is commented as obsolete in the Button
Setup dialog box.