Joe Schluter

I'm using FMPro 6 and FM Server 5. One of the FMPro clients acts as a data source (SQL) to a VB Script. If an error occurs (such as a server-side loss of database connectivity), an error box is displayed on this mostly unattended PC. This halts any further SQL processing and essentially ends up stalling my web page. Is there any way to tell filemaker to NOT put up error boxes or some other way to prevent FileMaker stalling in this way? Thanks a bunch - again...

I guess the reason the "restore" option does not remember the printer selection is because it might cause problems in networked FileMaker applications, where each PC might have a different printer it wants to use. So they made the "default" printer selction local to the local PC installation.

OK, thanks, and I'm guilty as hell. I had a problem with the global changing and simply assumed it was because the "global" was global to the database, not the current user context. It seemed like the logical assumption. Problem fixed - and THANKS A BUNCH!!!

I have a script that, among other things, counts records according to the content of a given field to later be displayed in a report header. I'm currently keeping the counts in global fields. However, if another user executes the same script with a different found set, the first user's global field value are mangled. Is there a way to define a "private" field or variable (other than the copy/paste buffer in Windows) that carries values specific to the current FileMaker invocation? Thanks for any help, Joe

Hi, Peter, That actually worked, but in a slightly different way. Although the Print Setup[Restore,No dialog] DOES NOT remember the printer selection, the FileMaker application DOES, even between invocations. So, I can leave the Windows Default printer set to whatever. But once I choose "PDF Writer" in FileMaker, it will remember it indefinitely. Thanks agains so much for your help, Joe

We are using FileMaker Pro 6 and we have a virtual printer that creates PDF files. What I want to be able to do is this: A VB Script should be able to access FileMaker (already running with the target database open), perform a "Find" to select a set of desired records (already done with SQL), THEN activate a given layout and Print to a non-default printer (thereby creating the PDF file). The parts I can't figure out is how get VB Script to tell FileMaker to print a given layout to a non-default printer. I've looked at the FileMaker ActiveX help. I could call the DoFMScript () method, but there' sno way to tell a script to remember a non-default printer to print to. Any ideas? Thanks!

I want to open a FileMaker database which is hosted by a FileMaker server using a batch file (or command line). I know you can open a *local* database by: "<path>Filemaker Pro" "<path>database.fp5" But what if the database is hosted by FileMaker Server? Is there a syntax for the parameter to specify a hosted file? Thanks