Reminder date email question

[daviator]

Forgive me if this has been answered before. I found snippets but not entirely what I'm looking for. I'm also very new at this (scripting).

I'm looking to create a script that will once daily look for any records with a reminder date of the current date (some records will not have a reminder date) and email the user (user being a filed that can be used as the " To: " email option).

I have Outlook setup and talking to FM as I use another script for emailing record info.

I just need to know how to:

A ) Scan records once daily for today's date in a reminder field

B ) When found, email a user with very basic info about that record.

Thanks!

David

Edited August 9, 2006 by Guest

[Lee Smith]

You can't do this in FileMaker without a plugin. Check the Plugin Topic Area here at the Forum, or look at what is available at

http://www.troi.com/

or

http://www.wmotion.com/s.nl/it.I/id.8/.f?sc=2&category=-102

HTH

Lee

[daviator]

Thank you Lee!!

[Jeff Bills]

Hi Lee,

The email script step in FM6 won't do this?

Just curious

[Lee Smith]

Hi Jeff,

In order to have FileMaker run a script at a scheduled time, requires a Plugin. This is true even in version 8.

HTH

Lee

[Jeff Bills]

Yeah, if you want a script to execute at a daily specific time, then use the plugin

But if not you can execute the script upon startup or shutdown. Since you only need to do it once a day would you want to create a script that you can execute when you desire?