Do you want FM create directories for you if they do not exist?

[edudna]

Dear FM experts,

In a given script we have a variable before to save a copy of a file, in order to specify the paths that a file should go. How can we display previously a dialog:

"Do you want FM create directories for you if they do not exist?"

How can we make the script to create these directories if they do not exist?

Pascal

[Søren Dyhr]

Hows about pulling a tiny batch file by this:

http://www.filemaker.com/help/ScriptsRef-267.html

: - Remember I'm on a mac, so it would make more sense to me to use a tiny shell thingy.

Maybe the solution to your task is to utilize this approach:

http://www.filemakermagazine.com/reference/specifying-paths.html

...and then write to temp instead, and then in the following scripting move it to new paths if necessary.

--sd

[edudna]

Thank you Soren,

I test the second script but it saves a file without extension in desktop. No dialogs no nothing. Probably I need further assistance as usual...

[Søren Dyhr]

Then &'e a dot and an extention to the $variable as well.

--sd

[edudna]

Another issue is that I create a GetAsPath(text;folder) and not a GetAsPath (text{;folder})

function (how can I get {}in a custom function?) as the web page describe. When it saves a file in desktop it saves it with text+folder.ftp7.

I want Fm to create first the folder then the file inside it. I hope you understand.

Pascal

[Søren Dyhr]

I hoped some of windows users might have jumped in, but you will find the answers to your question by downloading the template from this page:

http://www.codesentry.net/

The download includes a readme where the password to the filemaker solution is mentioned.

--sd

[edudna]

I appreciate your help everytime, Soren, even I do not understand it at once. As I realized there is a way to command from FM to windows to do some trivial jobs as open or create a directory. Very usefull to my case, I have to confess and open new orizons to FM databases generally as the custom functions.

Pascal