email contents of container field as an attachment

[ashplus]

Is it possible to email contents of container field as an attachment

from a mac or xp.

Edited August 31, 2007 by Guest

[Fitch]

You can do it directly with a plugin. With FileMaker alone you'd need to export the contents of the field first. This is fairly easy to do when you specify the path as a variable. FileMaker doesn't give you any easy way to delete the exported file when you're done, though. In version 9 you can at least put it in the temp folder.

[Søren Dyhr]

...where you then executes this tiny .bat file:

rd c:windowsTEMP /s /q

md C:windowsTEMP

If you really wish to get rid of it. With OS X is it more up to yourself where to put it, say the desktop via applescript/shell

try

do shell script "rm ~/Desktop/temp.pdf"

end try

--sd