Can save as PDF with field as filename?

[ML2008]

How can I set up a script to save as pdf with a field date as the pdf filename?

[Reed]

here's an example from a modified FM template. Click the view purchase order button in the upper right corner. The date had to be reformatted without the slashes, since those are path separators.

Purchase_Orders.fp7.zip

[Cassetti]

I don't know how reed did it (at work and can't download)

but i found a nifty way to do it in fmp8

in my script, i set a variable $filename to database::invoice field & ".pdf" so the entire filename was one variable

and then i did save pdf as...

and i put in the directory of where to save, ie:

c:whatever$filename

Thats all i had to do, the fun part was inserting that file as an obect embedded into the database : but i figured that out a few minutes later

[flybriguy]

apologies for my lack of understanding scripting nomenclature but can anyone post an exact verbatim scripting procedure for this? I'd like to have my pdf's saved too, not with a field date, but rather with my invoice id number on my main layout. Scripting where it saves to would be nice not necesarily.

-brian

Edited June 2, 2006 by Guest