Is it possible to have a button in FM9 to open the Finder? I have a client file system and the client's files from iWork, PDF's etc. are there. It would be nice to have a button in a layout that would open the particular client's folder in the Finder. Possible?

You will probably have to use AppleScript and use FileMaker to create the filepath.

As Martha says, use one of the FileMaker functions to determine the user's OS name (different for everyone). These would be:

Get ( DocumentsPath )

Get ( DesktopPath )

The AppleScript would look something like this:

tell application "Finder"

	open folder "Macintosh HD:Users:fej:Desktop:Registrations xml:"

	activate

end tell

The "activate" is to bring the Finder to the front, so you can see the folder. The folder path could be produced by writing the above as a calculation, in the Perform AppleScript step. In which case you need to escape the quotes, and explicitly add the paragraph returns (AppleScript is a line-based). If the folder is the ClientName, within the Documents folder, the calculation would look like:

Let ( [

docs = Get (DocumentsPath);

docs_Mac = Right ( Substitute ( docs; "/"; ":"); Length (docs) - 1)

];

"tell application "Finder"¶

open folder "" & docs_Mac & ClientName & ":"¶

activate¶

end tell"

)

Thank you very much. Sorry it took so long for the thank you to arrive....!

You're welcome. You might want to search for recent posts, for one of my posts that told how to create the folder (when needed) from a FileMaker field.