Preventing Auto-Entered Last Modified Field from Updating

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Does anyone know if it's possible to turn off record last modified timestamp fields auto-updating during scripts? I'd like to batch process a set of records for a simple checkbox field update but I don't want to lose the last modified data which reflects last *user* modification of the record data.

Thanks

Edited January 1, 2010 by Guest

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See if this helps:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/170406/post/179569/#179569

[Hijack]

Thanks Comment! That did the trick. I can now keep my script mods from updating the last edited timestamp (well, at least one I can calc against). It's not perfect since I do have some user scripts that update things I'd like to track but those scripted edits are minor compared to the other normal fields I'd like to see update times on.

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It's not perfect since I do have some user scripts that update things I'd like to track

I think the exact opposite: your problem is that the method IS perfect - while what you need is an imperfection.

For example, you could mark your "user scripts" by including something distinct in their name, say a "[user]" suffix, then test for:

IsEmpty ( Get (ScriptName) ) or Exact ( Right ( Get (ScriptName) ; 6 ) ; "[user]" )

[Hijack]

Yeah. I was thinking that I could case-out some of the few user scripts that are used to update data without too much trouble.

Too bad there isn't a script step to just turn off auto-updating when needed. But, eh, you can say that about a thousand things.

Edited January 2, 2010 by Guest