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Using ScriptMaker and buttons 5-19

Performing, resuming, or stopping scripts

Note You can’t stop a script that contains the Allow User Abort [Off]

step.

To Do this

Perform a script from the Script

Choose the script name from the Script menu.

Perform a script from the

Define Scripts dialog box

Choose ScriptMaker from the Script menu. Select the script

name, and then click Perform.

Perform a script using a

keyboard shortcut

Type the keyboard shortcut. (See “Reordering scripts in the

Script menu” on page 5-18.)

Perform a script from a button Switch to a layout that contains a button for the script. In

Browse or Find mode, click the button.

Perform a script when opening

or closing a FileMaker Pro file

In the Preferences dialog box, set the option to perform a

startup or shutdown script. See “Setting document

preferences” on page 9-7.

Continue a script after it pauses Click Continue in the status area, or press Return. If you

switch layouts while a script is paused and then continue the

script, remaining script steps occur in the new layout.

Stop a paused script Click Cancel in the status area, switch to another mode,

close the active window, or quit FileMaker Pro.

Stop a script (except when it is

paused)

Press Command-period, hide or close the active window, or

quit FileMaker Pro. If the script contains a Close or Toggle

Window step that hides the active window, FileMaker Pro

stops the current script and returns to the script that called

it (if there is one).

Choose FileMaker Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:

E scripts, performing