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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F
ILEMAKER PRO SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 301
Slide control
A layout object made up of one or mo
re slide panels, allowing you to organize fields and other
objects within each slide panel’s borders.
Slide control in Browse mode
Slide panel
A component of a slide control. The slide panel is the area disp
layed 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 on slide panels.
Slider
In the status toolbar, the navigation control for quickly moving
to a record in your file based on its
location in the file. 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 ga
ps left by entries in adjacent fields.
Set sliding in Layout mode, in the Slidin
g & Visibility area of the Position tab in the
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 file or a set of files containing database tables, layouts, scr
ipts, and associated data. A
solution solves one or more specific problems, such as tracking customers or invoices.
Sort order
The sequence for rearranging record
s. 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.
Source table
The table upon which one or more t
able occurrences in the relationships graph are based. The
source table is the table defined in the Tables tab of the Manage Database dialog box.
SQL
A structured programming query lang
uage that controls and interacts with a DBMS.