Script Steps Reference
Table Of 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
- Truncate Table
- Found Sets script steps
- Windows script steps
- Files script steps
- Accounts script steps
- Spelling script steps
- Open Menu Item script steps
- Miscellaneous script steps
- 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
- Get Directory
- Enable Touch Keyboard
- Glossary
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ILEMAKER PRO SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 282
ASCII character set
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard character set used by
computer systems worldwide (often extended for different alphabets).
Authentication
The process of checking the validity of an account and password (if one is defined) before
assigning privileges and allowing access to a system or a file. An account authenticated via
FileMaker
Pro or FileMaker Server is referred to as a FileMaker account. (FileMaker Server can
also authenticate an account via External Server — an external authentication system such as
Apple Open Directory, or a Windows domain.)
Authorization
Allowing a file to access a protected file’s schema (including its tables, layouts, scripts, and
value lists). Such a file is an authorized file.
Auxiliary files
In a FileMaker Pro Advanced runtime solution, files that are bundled with a primary file.
B
Badge
An icon indicating that conditional formatting, script triggers, placeholder text, or tooltips have
been applied to a field, object, or layout; that find is available for a field; that an object is a
button, popover button, or button bar; or that a solution is a favorite.
Base directory
For container fields that store an external reference, the directory in which the referenced data is
stored. You can also specify a file system path or a calculation for each open storage container
field.
Binding key
In FileMaker Pro Advanced, a case-sensitive key from 1 to 24 characters long that links the
components of a runtime solution.
Blank layout
A layout that contains empty body, header, and footer parts. (In previous versions of
FileMaker
Pro, a Blank layout was a predefined layout type.)
Body part
A layout part that contains individual records from a file.
Boolean value
A Boolean value is either true or false. A field containing any number except zero evaluates as
true. A field containing zero, no data, or content that does not resolve into a number evaluates
as false. For example, a field containing “ABC,” “ABC0,” or an empty field is false. A field
containing “1” or “ABC2” is true.
Break field
In a subsummary part, records are grouped (sorted) by values in another field, called the break
field. Whenever the value of the break field changes, the report “breaks” and FileMaker
Pro
inserts the subsummary part.