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automate a repeating "event"?

geekinthegarden
in Script Workspace and Script Triggers

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imagine iCal or other calendar apps: i can create an event and set it to repeat every week, every other week, 1st saturday of each month, etc.

now, is something similar in filemaker? i've got 400 clients that typically stick to a schedule... say, a house cleaning business... the majority of those clients have a consistent schedule: weekly, monthly, etc. as i have it now each appointment is set manually but if i could script some sort of automatic record creation and repeat it based on some sort of date based pattern?

this seems like it would be a very complicated set of scripts and calculations... i'm not sure how possible it would be??

Take a look at this ...and we'll tweak it in your direction.

--sd

Blast! I've just downgraded it to pre $variables, when I discovered that you for this post uses fm8, I originally brought it up here:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/attachment.php?attid/5828/

Recur6.zip

Edited by Guest

Things like "1st Saturday of the month" can be tricky, but we have a custom function that should help out...

http://www.clevelandconsulting.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=139

BTW, our calendar template has nice UI for creating repeating events, you can see a screen shot of it here.

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