if i use this bit of applescript:

open filemaker_file for Accounts "my account name" with passwords "my password"

I still get a login prompt.

Has anyone else experienced this?

ok after some further experimentation, I've found that the problem is related to spaces in the account name. However, I cannot get around this.

I've tried:

"my account name"

"|my account name|"

""my account name""

"my%20account%20name"

all to no avail...

Weird. I do this every day with AppleScript droplets. My account name has spaces in it. Works fine.

Maybe it is the filemaker_file part of it? Since I use a droplet, I don't specify the file; it's just whatever is dropped. If done with a specified file, it must be a full AppleScript path, such as:

"Macintosh HD:Users:fej:Documents:FileMaker:FM Clients:Smith:FileName.fp7"

Edited March 5, 200916 yr by Guest

huh, you are absolutely correct!

If I change "open the_file" to "open alias the_file"

then it works...

but it's very strange that the alias keyword is unnecessary if there are no spaced in the user name!