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
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Script
One or more instructions (script steps) that you define to automate repetitive or difficult tasks.
You manage scripts using the Manage Scripts feature. You run a script by clicking its button,
choosing its menu command, calling it from another script or a plug-in, or running it at startup or
when a file closes.
Script Debugger
A FileMaker Pro Advanced tool for debugging FileMaker Pro scripts.
Script step
A command that you include in a script.
Script trigger
A mechanism that causes a specified script to run when a particular event occurs.
Search criteria
In Find mode, the values and operators you specify to locate records. For example, if you type
ABC Travel in the Vendor field, FileMaker
Pro looks for and returns all records that have this
name in the Vendor field.
Security
The protection that’s placed on a file. Security includes various types of accounts to
authenticate users, levels of privilege sets to determine what can be done with a file, and
authorization of other files to create references to the current file (including its tables, layouts,
scripts, and value lists). Security also includes extended privileges, which determine the data
sharing options that are permitted by a privilege set.
Self-join
A relationship between fields in the same table. This creates another occurrence of the table in
the relationships graph.
Separator
A line within a menu that separates or groups menu items.
Serial number
A unique number entered by FileMaker Pro for each record. You can tell FileMaker Pro to
automatically enter a serial number for each record by setting the Auto-Enter options in the
Options for Field dialog box. You can also serialize records in Browse mode by choosing
Records menu
> Replace Field Contents.
Shared database
A database file for which sharing has been enabled, which permits users to access the
database file over a network. FileMaker
Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, and FileMaker Server
each support one or more of the following ways to share databases: FileMaker Network sharing,
which permits multiple FileMaker
Pro or FileMaker Go users to use a database file
simultaneously; publishing of databases to web browser users via FileMaker
WebDirect or
Custom Web Publishing; and sharing of data with other applications via ODBC/JDBC.
Shared ID
In FileMaker Pro Advanced, a case-sensitive ID between 1 and 32 characters long that links
encrypted database files in a multi-file solution.
Shortcut
Also known as keyboard shortcut. One or more keys that users can press to perform tasks.