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[NewGuy79]

I work for a large university and we use Filemaker Pro to schedule and track deliveries of equipment. I have been searching for a way to auto-refresh a list view of the current days deliveries but have not found anything. Is it possible to have a list view auto-refresh/update on a set interval say every 10 mins or anytime a new order is submitted?

[Wim Decorte]

Trying to picture what you have going there: users have a list view up all the time but are not doing much else in the solution except look at that screen?

If you have a scripted process for them leaving that list view and coming back you can requery the db before they enter the list view and make sure they have the most recent data set.

Other than that, there are ways to make this work with a VBscript from the Windows Task scheduler (but you'd need to be extremely careful not to interrupt whatever the user is doing at the time). Or use a FileMaker event plugin.

[NewGuy79]

Can you point me to where I can find a plug-in that will work. I figured that was going to be the route to go but haven't been able to find a plug-in for it. I was also thinking I could just add a script to the submit button that when clicked will refresh the view list.

The setup is we have 3 computers that can add new deliveries and one computer that is the server and constantly displays the view list of all that days deliveries. I need the list view to refresh/reload automatically so when we walk by it, without clicking anything, we can see if anyone has added a new delivery

[DykstrL]

You could setup a looping script that you could run on the machine that would refresh the list at the desired interval.

[NewGuy79]

Wouldn't the script need to be running 24/7? Couldn't this cause problems with either the system or within Filemaker

Thanks for all the help. This has been driving me nuts