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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Shortcut menu
Use to edit objects or data quickly by choosing commands from a shortcut, or context, menu.
Commands vary depending on the mode you're using, the item the cursor is over, and whether
an item is selected.
To display a shortcut menu, Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (OS X) the item.
Slide control
A layout object made up of one or more slide panels, allowing you to organize fields and other
objects within each slide panel’s borders.
Slide panel
A component of a slide control. The slide panel is the area displayed when a dot in a slide
control is selected. You can place objects such as lines, fields, buttons, portals, imported
graphics, blocks of text, tab controls, slide controls, and web viewers in slide panels.
Slider
In the status toolbar, the navigation control for quickly moving to a record in your database file
based on its location in the file. For example, in Browse mode, move the slider to the left to go to
the first record and to the right to go to the last record.
In Browse mode, moving the slider changes the current record. In Find mode, moving the slider
changes the current find request. In Layout mode, moving the slider changes the current layout.
In Preview mode, moving the slider changes the current page.
Sliding objects
Objects that move together to close gaps left by entries in adjacent fields.
Set sliding in Layout mode, in the Sliding & Visibility area of the Inspector.
If you don’t see the Inspector, choose View menu > Inspector.
Snapshot link
A found set of records that is saved in the FileMaker Pro Snapshot Link (FMPSL) format, with
the filename extension .fmpsl. A snapshot link captures and preserves the found set as it was
when you performed the find request. You can also email an FMPSL file to another person.
Solution
A database file or files.
Sort order
The sequence for rearranging records. Records are sorted by the first field in the sort order list,
then the second, and so on. Values within each field are sorted by the order specified
(ascending, descending, or custom).
Source file
The file from which you bring data during importing or exporting, or the file from which you add a
table to the relationships graph.
Slide control in Browse mode