I'm running filemaker server 8.0 v4, and I've recently started trying to implement autoupdating of plugins for our client computers. I've taken the sample Autoupdate file and am trying to use this to update the clients, but I've not yet gotten it to work. As I'm tracking down what is going wrong I come across the fact that the external function YourPlugin_Version (referenced in the fm8_autoupdate pdf) does not exist...why on earth? What did I do to cause this? Anybody have a notion why it isn't there? and what I can do to put it there?

the script where it should be called is "Local Plug-In Check", and this is what is in the script...

Set Field [AutoUpdatePlugin::Local_Version; ( 0 )]

Thanks to anybody that can help me with this weirdness.

"I come across the fact that the external function YourPlugin_Version (referenced in the fm8_autoupdate pdf) does not exist"

This is a reference to a function that exists in the *plugin that you want to update* not the autoupdate plugin itself... each plugin must have a function that returns a version string, and it's named differently for each plugin.

This function also returns version information in a different format, seemingly at the whim of the plugin developer. You'll have to parse out the version information from the string returned, and this will have to be customised for each plug-in.

Most plugin developers provide information on doing it, go through their docs.

thanks Vaughan, i'll check it out.