bonngo Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I need to create a script that will run every few minutes automatically. Can the script be triggered to run from within FileMaker or would I have to use an external source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruceR Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 External source. What are you trying to do with this script? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonngo Posted February 2, 2006 Author Share Posted February 2, 2006 I want to find records that have been "marked" for printing by a user. I plan on setting up a machine just for the sole purpose of running a script lets say every 5 minutes to search for these "marked" records in order to print them as a pdf. The final step will be to then email the pdf to the user or possibly store it in a container field for the user to download.....the reason behind all of this is because the user environment will be IWP. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbg2 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 (edited) Well if its on a dedicated machine and that is the machines only purpose... Loop Pause/Resume Script [Duration (seconds): 300] {script steps you want to execute} End Loop On a side note if a user is "marking" the records they want to print why not use a button that will execute your script? Edited February 2, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonngo Posted February 2, 2006 Author Share Posted February 2, 2006 Thank you for your response. The reason I cannot execute the script from the user side is because IWP does not support printing. If you know of a way that a pdf could be printed in IWP I would be delighted to hear how. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbg2 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 No? Sorry, excuse my ignorance as I have not yet had to deal with IWP. I wonder if the good folks in the Apple Script forum could help you devise an Apple script to perform these tasks Server Side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Søren Dyhr Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Is it an ordinary version that runs as IWP server? if so put it in the initiation script. When ever any other script is performed resume the initiation script again after completion. You could make a compiled applescript you in the initiaion starts ...but be carefull none of the fields should be shared in common with the userinterfaces since no-one are likely to hear when the applescript bleeps over denied access. I could be done with calcfields relaying the values. --sd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonngo Posted February 6, 2006 Author Share Posted February 6, 2006 Thank you, lots of good information to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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