Hi - Does anyone have a formula of a dynamic countdown timer for filemaker. I want to send emails with the countdown time to an event.

ie. It is 4 days, 21 hours and 6 minutes until ...

Does anyone have such a formula ?

Dave

I would be happy if I could just track the hours until an given time.

If I have an event tomorrow. How would I track the number of hours dynamically from now until tomorrow. Like 23 hours away.

as an example.

Edited March 12, 200817 yr by Guest

Are you wanting to USE the FIlemaker on that machine whilst it counts down? If not then it's relatively easy to do with a looping script . . . i.e. you would start the timer and that's all that that machine or FM would do until it got to the correct time and when it does it executes or completes the task at the scheduled time.

I would like it to act ( the timer field ) to act just like a kitchen timer. you can set the amount of minutes with an alarm. You can stop it whenever you want but it runs constantly . You can set a number a minutes for a function. Like if I want to set it to alarm after 20 minutes. That is more what I am trying to do. But the countdown timer can be paused and resumed.

Thanks

Dave

Again this can be done with a looping script, but in my experience this locks Filemaker into the running of the script (the proverbial countdown) and you can do little else except watch or pause the countdown. I'm not sure if anyone else has another method . . . do you want me to send you an example?

Yes Sorry

Thought the was no answer.

Dave

Please post any sample files here as an attachment, that way we can follow your advice, and it can be helpful to others with the same questions.

TIA

Lee