Applescript in Filemaker

[M Studios]

I am a newbie to all of this and little idea of what I am doing.

I am trying to create an Applescript in FM that will create a new folder and name that folder by the JobNum field (it is a serial number to identify that record).

Here is the script that I currently have:

tell application "Finder"

activate

make new folder at folder "Current Jobs" of startup disk with properties {name: JobNum}

end tell

The error message that I get when I use this script is:

"The variable JobNum is not defined."

I am having a hard time figuring out what this means and how I can get this script to work. Any help is much appreciated!

[M Studios]

I am a newbie to all of this and little idea of what I am doing.

I am trying to create an Applescript in FM that will create a new folder and name that folder by the JobNum field (it is a serial number to identify that record).

Here is the script that I currently have:

tell application "Finder"

activate

make new folder at folder "Current Jobs" of startup disk with properties {name: JobNum}

end tell

The error message that I get when I use this script is:

"The variable JobNum is not defined."

I am having a hard time figuring out what this means and how I can get this script to work. Any help is much appreciated!

[M Studios]

I am a newbie to all of this and little idea of what I am doing.

I am trying to create an Applescript in FM that will create a new folder and name that folder by the JobNum field (it is a serial number to identify that record).

Here is the script that I currently have:

tell application "Finder"

activate

make new folder at folder "Current Jobs" of startup disk with properties {name: JobNum}

end tell

The error message that I get when I use this script is:

"The variable JobNum is not defined."

I am having a hard time figuring out what this means and how I can get this script to work. Any help is much appreciated!

[Fenton]

It means what it says. If that's the whole script you haven't told it what value JobNum is, and it is reminding you of the fact. As it is JobNum is just an AppleScript variable which has never been set to anything at all, so it's an error.

If this is inside a FileMaker Perform AppleScript step*, it should have something like:

set JobNum to cell "JobNum" of current record

then the rest of the script.

The field JobNum would have to on the current layout for the above to work. Or you can specify the layout:

set JobNum to cell "JobNum" of current record of layout "Job"

There are alternative places to the startup disk, which is the top level, not usually a place where I'd put user documents.

You could use:

make new folder at desktop with properties {name: JobNum}

Which would be the user's desktop. Or

make new folder at (path to documents folder) with properties {name:JobNum}

User's Documents folder

*If this is NOT inside a FileMaker Perform AppleScript step, but is being written or run in Script Editor (perhaps for testing), then it needs a FileMaker tell block:

tell application "FileMaker Pro"

rest of script

end tell

[Fenton]

It means what it says. If that's the whole script you haven't told it what value JobNum is, and it is reminding you of the fact. As it is JobNum is just an AppleScript variable which has never been set to anything at all, so it's an error.

If this is inside a FileMaker Perform AppleScript step*, it should have something like:

set JobNum to cell "JobNum" of current record

then the rest of the script.

The field JobNum would have to on the current layout for the above to work. Or you can specify the layout:

set JobNum to cell "JobNum" of current record of layout "Job"

There are alternative places to the startup disk, which is the top level, not usually a place where I'd put user documents.

You could use:

make new folder at desktop with properties {name: JobNum}

Which would be the user's desktop. Or

make new folder at (path to documents folder) with properties {name:JobNum}

User's Documents folder

*If this is NOT inside a FileMaker Perform AppleScript step, but is being written or run in Script Editor (perhaps for testing), then it needs a FileMaker tell block:

tell application "FileMaker Pro"

rest of script

end tell

[Fenton]

It means what it says. If that's the whole script you haven't told it what value JobNum is, and it is reminding you of the fact. As it is JobNum is just an AppleScript variable which has never been set to anything at all, so it's an error.

If this is inside a FileMaker Perform AppleScript step*, it should have something like:

set JobNum to cell "JobNum" of current record

then the rest of the script.

The field JobNum would have to on the current layout for the above to work. Or you can specify the layout:

set JobNum to cell "JobNum" of current record of layout "Job"

There are alternative places to the startup disk, which is the top level, not usually a place where I'd put user documents.

You could use:

make new folder at desktop with properties {name: JobNum}

Which would be the user's desktop. Or

make new folder at (path to documents folder) with properties {name:JobNum}

User's Documents folder

*If this is NOT inside a FileMaker Perform AppleScript step, but is being written or run in Script Editor (perhaps for testing), then it needs a FileMaker tell block:

tell application "FileMaker Pro"

rest of script

end tell

[M Studios]

Thank you so much! This is going to make our workflow so much easier and I am really jazzed about learning more about Applescript.

Thanks!

[M Studios]

Thank you so much! This is going to make our workflow so much easier and I am really jazzed about learning more about Applescript.

Thanks!

[M Studios]

Thank you so much! This is going to make our workflow so much easier and I am really jazzed about learning more about Applescript.

Thanks!