FM7 Server and scheduled FM scripts

[ibiubu]

Just a gripe...all the work to get FM7 server out, and still no way to schedule within FM server scripts to run witin FM databases. One would think it would be a SIMPLE matter to have added the ability to schedule a database file and script name to run. But just an observation.

Anyway, I have a script that I want to run every 30 minutes. I really can't use the plugins Events or Activator since neither will run as plugins directly within Server. And I don want to have my FM databases open on another client machine just to have these scripts run.

Is there a way to have one of my database files that is being served up by FM Server 7 run a simple little script every 30 minutes?

Larry

[dkemme]

What about an AppleScript that is always running on the machine and every thirty minutes tells Filemaker to do script?

[Bergare]

That would work if it was running on say Filemaker Pro 7, but are there any way of scheduling script execution within Server directly? I am using cwp as well, so I created a script calling a web stylesheet that executes the script... This worked in this particular case (since it was web compatible, and it doesn't matter if someone finds out about it at executes it remotely) but for future reference, it would be nice finding a solution. Ibiubi - did you find any?

/B.

[ibiubu]

Just a follow-up on this. As of yet, I have not been able to find a way to run my FM files using FMSA, and to also be able to have a way of setting a schedule that will run a script at a particular time.

Of course if I leave the files open on a remote machine using FMPro 7, then I can use applescript or a plugin like Events manager, but still can't find a way to have it work in just server itself. A litle frustrating.

Larry

[Kyle Johnson]

If you have Advanced Server (or could upgrade to it) and enable the web engine, I think you can run scripts by generating a specific URL (or you could use something like FX.php). If you do that, you could use cron to call a web page via curl. It's a little complicated but doable. We don't do anything like this for FileMaker, but we have some other automated processes I wrote in PHP and call them using this strategy.