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 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
- Get Directory
- Show Custom Dialog
- Allow Formatting Bar
- Refresh Object
- Beep
- Speak (OS X)
- Dial Phone
- Install Plug-In File
- Install Menu Set
- Set Web Viewer
- Open URL
- Send Mail
- AVPlayer Play
- AVPlayer Set Playback State
- AVPlayer Set Options
- Refresh Portal
- Send DDE Execute (Windows)
- Perform AppleScript (OS X)
- Execute SQL
- Send Event
- Comment
- Flush Cache to Disk
- Exit Application
- Enable Touch Keyboard
- Glossary
Records script steps
F
ILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 130
Originated in
FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier
Description
You can set the export order before adding this script step, or perform the step with a dialog box so
a user can set new criteria. Export Records exports all the records currently being browsed. If you
want to limit the set of records you're exporting, use a
find request before using Export Records.
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.
Notes
• When using the Export Records script step or Import 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.
• Export to .fmp12 is not supported.
• In FileMaker Go, exporting to .fmp12 and XML formats is not supported.
• When using this script step in FileMaker WebDirect, keep the following in mind:
• FileMaker WebDirect does not support this script step in mobile browsers.
• FileMaker WebDirect does not support exporting to .fmp12, XML, or Excel formats.
• If the Specify output file option is selected, FileMaker WebDirect outputs exported
records with the specified filename and file type but ignores the specified file path.
• FileMaker WebDirect outputs exported records to the web browser’s default download
location.
• If field data or record data is too long for the export format, the Get(LastError) function
returns 0 rather than 736.
Example 1
Finds and sorts records, then exports the found set as an Excel file without prompting the user.
Go to Layout ["Invoices"]
Perform Find [Restore]
Sort Records [Restore; No dialog]
Export Records [No dialog; "Unpaid Invoice List.xlsx"; Unicode (UTF-16)]