Unique Path/Filename when exporting

[Sr.Paul]

I've read the Forums and found bits and pieces of what I need but it's just not clear to me.

I have three calculation fields, foldername, path and content.

foldername = "[color:red]unique"

path = "filemac:/Servername/[color:red]unique/filename.txt"

content = "text information about whatever"

What I would like my script to do is to loop through a found set and export the "content" field to the path provided by the "path" field.

Can it be done without a plug-in?

[SlimJim]

The usual method is to Set a $ variable as the path (using your calculation) and then in the export script step you can specify the $ variable as the path name.

[Sr.Paul]

Thanks Slim, but I guess I was a bit vague. I believe I have it in theory but what I lack is practice. If you or someone could point me to some reference or to an example, that is what I could really use.

[SlimJim]

I have constructed an absolutely minimal example. no data, but including a script. I am not able to test this as I don't have a Mac but I can see no reson why it shouldn't work.

export.zip

[Sr.Paul]

Slim, you're the man! That did it!

I was close but so far away.

my $path was too complicated and did not look at all like this:

"filemac:/Servername/" & export::foldername & "/" & export::filename & ".txt"

(I should post mine in how Not to do things)

Thank you very much, I'd been hitting my head against the keyboard for too long (all those hours of wasted code).