Multiple parameters

[Boto]

I need to pass 2 variables to a script, is this possible somehow... cause i seem to miss the function of defining custom variables in the scripting of FM7 (used to work with Access which allows this in the VB scripting/programming).

Thx in advance

[Ender]

Lookup the Evaluate function in the FM7 application help. It shows an example of using the Evaluate function to parse multiple script parameters.

[Boto]

I read the example, but it uses two variables and i want to send 2 database attributes. So the values of offer::offerID and offer::carID have to be sent to an other lay-out... i can't get it working.

[Reed]

I have seen another technique to accomplish this at filemakermagazine.com....

Pass the parameters as a return-delimited list, and retrieve them using the middlevalues() function.

This seems much more straightforward to me than the evaluate() technique in FM help.

[Boto]

can you maybe provide an example?

Still, this is also very helpfull... i'll go search their site!

greetz

[Kurt Knippel]

Filemaker does NOT define what a "parameter" is, so you could pass anything, including a value list or a set of related data.

In you simple example you could pass the following "parameter" - Sales | New Record

Then you scripting could parse out the Sales part and the New Record part as 2 seperate parameters.

[Reed]

Here is a (useless) example.... but it illustrates what I'm talking about.

param.fp7.zip

[Ken Newell]

Check the tips & tricks section where I posted a sample file a few week back. It shows how to pass 3 vairables; in this case the RGB values.

[Boto]

thanks i'll check it out.

[cellmaker]

Reed -

That was a pithy and very helpful "useless" example. You answered about 14 of my questions simultaneously.

Many thanks.