How to set the value of a field from Applescrpt ?

[Totophe]

The question is :

How to set the value of an FM field from an AppleScript ?

I tried :

tell app "FileMaker Developer"

set cell "test::test" to "Hello World!"

end tell

but an error occured...

[Søren Dyhr]

If you try to work your way to the correct field by changing the numbers in this script will you be abel to see the way the syntax is going to be - down in the result part of scripteditor:

tell application "FileMaker Developer"

	name of cell 1 of table 1

end tell

or 

tell application "FileMaker Developer"

	name of cell 1 of layout 1

end tell

May you get a enjoyable hunt!! This might be enough clue to where your assumtions causes the errormessage

--sd

[Totophe]

Thanks for help !

But...

He does not find the object.

What I have is :

- FileMaker Dev 7 opened

- One table - one layout - one field (for testing purpose)

- I execute the code but he tell me "Object not found" and select the "name" in the code...

What's wrong ?

[B-Man]

Do you have any records in your test file? If you do not you will need to create a record before you can insert data into it.

Here is a very basic AS to insert into record 1

tell application "FileMaker Developer"

tell database "test.fp7"

set cell "test" of record 1 of table "test" to "test"

end tell

end tell

hope this helps

Later