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FILEMAKER PRO HELP 1151
Originated in
FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier
Description
You can enter a phone number or specify a calculation to create a phone number. You can specify
number, text, calculation, or
global fields. Letters within the phone number are translated to numbers
(except for q and z). You can also choose whether to use the current phone preferences based on
your current location.
Tip To place an international call in FileMaker Go, filter the phone number for numerical digits and
the "+" symbol. Select Use Dialing Preferences to allow the iPhone to automatically detect the
correct country formatting.
Important The Dial Phone script step is not supported in OS X, but you can create scripts that
include the Dial Phone script step to use in FileMaker Go.
Example 1
Dials the phone number contained in the script.
Dial Phone ["5550987654"]
Example 2
Dials the phone number contained in the Work Phone field in the current record.
Go to Layout ["Customer Details"]
If [not IsEmpty ( Customers::Work Phone )]
Dial Phone [No dialog; Customers::Work Phone]
End If
Example 3
Filters the contents of the Work Phone field for appropriate characters and dials the filtered number.
Go to Layout ["Customer Details"]
If [not IsEmpty ( Customers::Work Phone )]
Dial Phone [No Dialog; Filter ( Customers::Work Phone ; "1234567890+"
)]
End If
Related topics
Filter function
Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
Script steps reference (category list)
FileMaker Go Yes
Custom Web Publishing No
FileMaker WebDirect No
Runtime solution Yes
Where the script step runs Supported