Export path confusion

[spb]

I am running FM 6 on FM Server (10 seats, server is Win2000). I have a file from which I wish to export a comma-separated text file, and have the resulting exported file be placed in the same location on our company's NT Server. This export script will need to be invoked from any one of six machines. I do most of my developing on a Mac OS 9.2, but the user machines are all Winboxes.

In testing, I found that when I run it from machine A, the file will go where I want it. Then when I try it on machine B, FM puts it into the local application folder. If I open the script in Scriptmaker, click "specify" and lead it to the correct spot, then close it, without clicking "replace" at the prompt, it will now go to the right place from machine B, however machine A is now putting it in *its* application folder.

The script is a one-line export records script, with "restore" and "perform without dialog" checked. I also have "specify file" checked, as I want the file to have the same filename & characteristics every time, and I want it to over-write the older version.

Is there a way to get this file to go to the right place, no matter which machine generates it?

Steve Brown

[slstrother]

Is the path to the export location the same for all machines? I suspect that this is your problem. You might try mapping the export location with the same drive letter on each machine.

[spb]

Good idea, but this is not the case. A local machine always has its Filmaker app files on its C drive. Therefore (I presume) it is running FM locally & running the script from the same drive. The location is always the same, a folder on the P drive of our NT server. The FM files themselves are hosted on a Win2000 machine dedicated to this purpose (not the NT server).

I have other scripts that export little text files to this P drive in exactly the same way. These scripts have exported correctly for a couple of months, originating from any one of three different machines.

Only my new script seems to have developed path confusion. I am missing something with the export script step, but I just can't see it.

Steve Brown

[mguncheon]

Did you ever get this solved, I am having the same problem on Mac OSX

[halbj]

I am having a similar problem under OSX where I specify an export location (in a script) on one machine (OS 10.3.2) and then run the script on a another (OS 10.3.2) machine, it dumps the file in the FileMaker application folder - obviously the default location. I have had this problem between different OS's and have written scripts to get around it, but the two computers i have been testing are same OS and identical hardware also??

Any help would be appreciated