Windows FM 17 :- Create Folder On Windows FileShare

[Angelo Grant]

Hello Guys

I am pretty new to FileMaker and I have inherited the administration of a FileMaker DB that was written by someone else.  

Users of the FileMaker DB complained that they no longer have the ability to create a folder/Subfolders to a network file share by click the button.

After investigating i realized that  my predecessors used the productive computing File-Manipulator plugin to create folders/Subfolders

Could someone assist me to re-write this script using the  Send Event function. If you have any questions please feel free to ask

 

[Wim Decorte]

Why not keep using the plugin?

If you want to do it with Send Event then it would look something like this:

cmd /c mkdir <path to the new folder>

[Angelo Grant]

Unfortunately the PCFM plugin is not creating the folder and sub folder on the network path provided.

From my understanding the script suppose to create a folder in the \\NetworkPath\EnfsFiles\CaseID\HearingID.  Example \\ServerName\EnfFiles\123-001\789

Where 123-001 will be the CaseID as the folder name and 789 will be the Hearing ID as the sub folder name.

• In the firast screenshot below shows how the PCFM_FolderCreate function is used to create the folder
• As you can see the PCFM_FolderCreate gets the path information form the  CreateEnfsPath field in the Hearing table.
• This is what the CreateEnfspath field look like Hearing in the table. I covered the server names in blue for client confidentiality.                                                   I hope this makes some clarification. if you have any question please feel free to ask.

[Wim Decorte]

What error do you get on the plugin call?

Are you running this from a client machine or is this in a server-side script?

[Angelo Grant]

The current infrastructure is FM17 server with FM15 client. The script and plugin is being run on the FM15 client.

Some users receive the error: unable complete operation. Other user doesn't receive an error message it will just say completed but when you check the network file share the folder and sub folders doesn't exist.