Script Steps Reference
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
- About script steps
- 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 Device
- 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
- Glossary
Fields script steps
F
ILEMAKER PRO SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 103
Replace Field Contents
Purpose
Uses the value in a specified field in the current record or uses a calculation to replace the value in
that field in every record in the current found set.
Format
Replace Field Contents [No Dialog; <table::field>;
Current contents/Serial numbers/Calculation results]
Options
• Perform without dialog prevents display of the Replace Field Contents dialog box when
the script step executes.
• Select Go to target field or click Specify to specify the target field for the replace operation.
• Click Specify to display the Replace Field Contents dialog box, where you can determine
the settings required for the Replace Field Contents command.
• Replace with "current contents" uses the current value in the specified field as the
replacement value to place in that field in every other record in the current
found set.
• Replace with serial numbers reserializes the field in every record in the current found
set.
• Entry options uses the next available value in Entry Options as the first record number,
incrementing with whatever value is in Entry Options.
• Custom Values lets you enter a value to be used as a starting point for the
serialization, as well as a value by which to increment each serialized field in the current
found set.
• Update serial number in Entry Options? resets the serial number value in Entry
Options so that the next serial number that is automatically entered will follow the
records you have reserialized with this script step. If this option is not used, the serial
value in Entry Options is not changed, and may not be in sequence with the newly
reserialized records.
• If the field to be replaced was set up for auto-entry of a serial number and Prohibit
modification of value is not selected, FileMaker
Pro will still put sequential numbers in
the selected field, but will do so starting with the next number to be automatically
entered.
• Replace with calculated result displays the Specify Calculation dialog box, where you
can enter a calculation to be used as the replacement value.