Matching Records at a later date

[Andrew Q]

Hello everyone. I'm tinkering around with an idea and hoping that someone might be able to help point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to come up with a solution whereby if a user searches thru a database and comes up empty, the user is then able to submit something like a 'ticket' which is valid for a certain time period(lets say for example 3months). What this 'ticket' function would do is that it would check any new records that is being added by any other users of the db for that particular period and if there is a match, the system(server) would then be able to send an email notification to that user who submited the 'ticket'.

[Genx]

The issue is that the server can not do something by itself -- everything is client dependant.

You could always submit the tickets, and run a script on the users login to process all the find requests stored in tickets.

Otherwise, you could try a plugin like DoScript to run the check scripts when your users are idle.

[Andrew Q]

Thanks for your input Genx.

Is there such a thing where a script can be automated to run at specific time intervals? will running an advanced server help in doing so?

[Genx]

Advanced server no... plugin (that's free) yes... seriously, go to google and search "DoScript FileMaker" without the quotes

[Andrew Q]

thanks for the tip Genx. Just downloaded it and will check it out. Looks very promising. Thanks once again.