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I have a Keyboard Maestro macro called “Clipboard to BBEdit” which opens a new BBEdit document and pastes the contents of the Clipboard. I call this macro from a number of contexts, including FileMaker. Here’s the FileMaker script. Copy [ Select ; Note::noteContent ] Perform AppleScript [ “te...
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I use AppleScript step to do many file manipulations using AppleScript. I usually pass the results of the AppleScript to Filemaker by setting a text Field from within the AppleScript step. This has worked fine until I tried to create the following AppleScript. The Goal of the AppleScript was to find...
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Hello, I hope this is a simple question: Is there a reverse of the "Quote()" function, that would turn a calculated AppleScript in FM back to a straight AppleScript? I have a very complex calculated AppleScript that I need to retest. Thanks.
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Hello, I have a database that I run on 3 different computers, all with Mac OS 11.2. FMpro is 18.0.3.317. A script uses an AppleScript that opens a browser. The AppleScript invokes System Events and contains a "do shell script" step. On all computers, FMPro, Script Editor Script Menu are... -
Hello, the following is the essence of a problem I need to resolve. The code is AppleScript display dialog "Hello \"world\" " This code needs to run in FMP18 as a calculated applescript. I tried: Perform AppleScript [display dialog \"Hello "world" \"] Perform AppleScri...
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We are working on a process for passing certain info nuggets out of a solution (FMP 13) in an encrypted method. For various reasons a version upgrade isn't feasible. So the plan is to encrypt the nuggets, then pass them into a format for transport. Currently, we're using Applescript to pas...
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I just upgraded to FMP16 from FMP13. My applescripts no longer work. I get an error of -10004, for which I cannot find an explanation. Any idea what I must change to make Applescripts work in FMP16?
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I am trying to create a button that deploys a script that opens a corresponding server folder based on the value in a particular field of the current record card. Here is what I have so far, but I can't figure out why it is not working: Set Variable [ $jobno ; Value: Project File Server Locatio... -
Is it possible to use AppleScript to open the Script Workplace, select a particular script and even scroll to a particular line? I looked through several AppleScript sources (there are not so many...) as well as the Dictionary of FIleMaker Pro Advanced 15, but all examples seem to deal with usi...
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Is there a way in AppleScript to trap if the connection is lost and have an AppleScript act on this? At the risk of asking and answering myself( AppleScript below ) repeat tell application "FileMaker Pro" try database "db" on error do shell script "sudo shutdown -r now" with admi... -
Hi, I am using filemaker 11 to copy customer info from excel into the database and then it would generate special keys in pdf allowing us to send the file to the customer. My access to the filemaker is non-admin, and the import function of customer info has been blocked. We are keying in t...
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When i use a local robot to create pdf files or other, i have a problem when the connection go down, filemaker loose every reference to the remote file. The only way is to close the file and open again, i solved this problem on Mac using this apple script. 1) The AS check the connection i... -
I have a simple Applescript that works in Script Editor tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" do script "Search the Web" end tell I add this same script (with escape chars) to my RESOURCES::A_SCRIPT field inside FM. The RESOURCES table is not connected to the other tables i... -
fmp 14 last release. i put this applescript in a global field and also all the fmp field are global. i don't understand wy it doesn't work, if the applescript var are set as ... "set ServerDisk to "afp://2.236.100.143/dati" ... it work. Were i am wrong? Many thanks....
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bBox is a FileMaker plug-in providing easy integration with shell, AppleScript, Python, and Ruby scripts. Freely available with a comprehensive demo file. This version adds the following: bBox_PythonEvaluate function for quick call-backs from FileMaker "no wait" mode for Bash, Curl... -
Hi All, I just thought I'd try to give back to the community that has given so much to me by writing a little tutorial. This technique is one I developed on Macs. Mac OS X has the curl command line tool as part of the default installation. Curl is like a web swiss army knife. You can fetch file... -
Hi all, running into an issue with Quicklook on Yosemite. When we run this script: It causes Filemaker to open two instances of qlmanage, wait a while, then crash. I've heard there are difficulties getting Quicklook to behave in Filemaker on Yosemite, so I began exploring other options. I am a...
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Running on Mac OS, and need this script to move come files (.jpgs) out of a particular calculated folder/filename sequence. I've got this working in a separate applescript (to install said jpg files), but it's built slightly differently. The issue I'm getting is this: it errors out, and I get "... -
I am trying to get FileMaker to extract the content of the inbox in mail. The code works on my computer but on my clients it has an issue. The code sets cell "g_Email_Inbox" and when I query that cell from applescript it returns its contents but within FileMaker on my client's machine NaDa. It di...
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I could really use some help! I'm in a crunch and need a solution fast. Any Applescript FileMaker gurus out there? My client sends me (usually weekly) batches of excel documents... hundreds of them. I've created import scripts and parsing scripts to get the data from the excel document into FileMak...
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Is there a way in AppleScript, when communicating with FM (i.e., an AS triggered from outside of FM) to tell FM to freeze the window?
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Hi, I'm having problems with an applescript that tells Phone Amego to initiate a phone call. I've got it to work with a phone number hard coded into the script, but I can't get Filemaker to insert the field's content (phone number) into the script. Table name: PhoneAmego test Telephone...
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A tip for troubleshooting AppleScripts
mikedr posted a topic in Script Workspace and Script Triggers
One thing I really like about FMP is that you can specify a "calculation" for a perform AppleScript script step. However, this does leave something to be desired. Before each quote in the AS, you have to do a backslash, and at the end of each line, the paragraph symbol. A problem I've had is t... -
Here's the one I just finished up. For my legal practice, we routinely have to generate special PDF forms for submission to the patent office that list a lot of patents and related information regarding each. I wrote a script that: (1) takes the list from a field, and parses it to remove extra...
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Using FMP12, I was trying to use applescript to launch FMP and and a remote file.. I got it to work except for the fact that the "Open New or Existing File" dialog box pops up and stops the script.. The checkbox to disable the dialog is gone now (Please bring it back!!), so anyone know a way to use...
