Newbies digitas Posted February 15, 2002 Newbies Share Posted February 15, 2002 I'm sure this has been answered many times but I'm somewhat of a beginner and am going to ask anyway. I'm having problems setting up my database (FM 5 on OS 9.1.2) to auto email users when a return by date has surpassed. Can someone tell me where I can find step by step procedures for setting up an email script or email me some procedures? Any info would be extremely helpful. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 The easiest way is going to be to set up a script to run at startup time to check through the database for any records that satisfy your criteria and loop through them to send an email for each one. Does this help? Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies digitas Posted February 15, 2002 Author Newbies Share Posted February 15, 2002 I'll give it a try. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spymaster Posted February 26, 2002 Share Posted February 26, 2002 I have a similar problem in that I need to send an email out once a certain date has passed, but the DB needs to stay open b/c of web access, and the script needs to check every day whether it needs to send out an email. Is there any way to schedule a script to run once every 24 hours? or any workarounds that might have similar results? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitch Posted February 27, 2002 Share Posted February 27, 2002 Since you're on a Mac, you can use the ido Script Scheduler. It helps if you know a little bit of AppleScript too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinolas Posted February 27, 2002 Share Posted February 27, 2002 And if you're on a PC, use the scheduler (Scheduled Tasks) to open a FileMaker Pro file (scheduledScript.fp5)that's setup to run a script at startup. This script should call the script your wanting to schedule then close scheduledScript.fp5. I use this technique and it works great ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spymaster Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 Is there any task scheduler that runs natively in OSX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitch Posted March 1, 2002 Share Posted March 1, 2002 OS X being essentially UNIX, you're going to see tools like Cron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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