Running a script in a related file.

[droosan]

It seems that there is no way to call a script in another file from a script in the active file, except via AppleScript (on a mac). Feel free to correct me.

Therefore, being the AppleScript Wiz that I am not, I tried this:

tell application "FileMaker Pro"

tell document "Pages"

do script "Update All Pages"

end tell

end tell

When I run this run from script editor, FM bounces off the dock, I click on it and "Update All Pages" runs correctly.

When, I run it from a FM script in a file related to "Pages", it gives a error: FileMaker Pro got an error, Object not found (Error -1728)

Any Ideas?

Thanks in Advance.

[Thom]

Choose External Script under Perform Script in ScriptMaker. You should be able to run scripts in any other FileMaker files to which you have adequate access, related or not.

[droosan]

Duh...

I just looked at "External Script..." the other day and thought, "wonder what that does?", and went on with what I was doing.

Thank you, it solve that problem, and bunch of other long standing ones!