Hi everyone,

As a new trainee on a filemaker project but learning Filemaker and Applescript in the same time, i'm coping with small troubles implementing "basic" scripts...

I want to insert an applescript longer than 255 characters in a field, with a calculated result (fields containaing paths, names....).

At the beginning, i was just inserting text , without calculation in the field, no worries.

Troubles came with the calculated result try.

Originally, i didn't saw any reason for it to be a difficulty but when i try to implement it, the text field is limited to 255 characters or so....

So, i read something about defining a text field with the auto-enter data set to fill the field with a calculation. But it doesn't work either, calculation stop at 255 or so characters.

What i want to implement is the following:

Tmp_text is a text field set to contain ( "myFolder:" ) , with quotes

Tmp_text_2nd is a text field set to contain ( "myFolder" ), with quotes

The auto enter by calculation is

[color:"blue"] "tell application ""Finder""

Hi everyone,

As a new trainee on a filemaker project but learning Filemaker and Applescript in the same time, i'm coping with small troubles implementing "basic" scripts...

I want to insert an applescript longer than 255 characters in a field, with a calculated result (fields containaing paths, names....).

At the beginning, i was just inserting text , without calculation in the field, no worries.

Troubles came with the calculated result try.

Originally, i didn't saw any reason for it to be a difficulty but when i try to implement it, the text field is limited to 255 characters or so....

So, i read something about defining a text field with the auto-enter data set to fill the field with a calculation. But it doesn't work either, calculation stop at 255 or so characters.

What i want to implement is the following:

Tmp_text is a text field set to contain ( "myFolder:" ) , with quotes

Tmp_text_2nd is a text field set to contain ( "myFolder" ), with quotes

The auto enter by calculation is

[color:"blue"] "tell application ""Finder""

Hi everyone,

As a new trainee on a filemaker project but learning Filemaker and Applescript in the same time, i'm coping with small troubles implementing "basic" scripts...

I want to insert an applescript longer than 255 characters in a field, with a calculated result (fields containaing paths, names....).

At the beginning, i was just inserting text , without calculation in the field, no worries.

Troubles came with the calculated result try.

Originally, i didn't saw any reason for it to be a difficulty but when i try to implement it, the text field is limited to 255 characters or so....

So, i read something about defining a text field with the auto-enter data set to fill the field with a calculation. But it doesn't work either, calculation stop at 255 or so characters.

What i want to implement is the following:

Tmp_text is a text field set to contain ( "myFolder:" ) , with quotes

Tmp_text_2nd is a text field set to contain ( "myFolder" ), with quotes

The auto enter by calculation is

[color:"blue"] "tell application ""Finder""

Make sure the calculation is set to text type not number type in define fields dialog box.

Make sure the calculation is set to text type not number type in define fields dialog box.

Make sure the calculation is set to text type not number type in define fields dialog box.

Thanks a lot for your answer,

I should have wrote that this was a job on an old database, under filemaker 6 dev. I hope your advice will work. Give it a try right now....

Anyway thanks,