Call Script Immediately from IWP?

[Lyndsay Howarth]

Recently I have had a reasonably serious play with ScriptMaster and it works well in FMP.

I'm just looking for some guidance so I don't bog down potentially attempting the impossible:

Can I trigger a call script from IWP that runs on the FMP machine from IWP? Specifically can I use a script that saves a PDF to the host HD? I tried it with the onLayoutLoad and failed and was wondering if I could do it by a change to a field value or similar.

Also, it is not clear to me what 'param' (if any) I would use.

Thanks

Lyndsay

[fmjip]

Hi,

Inside IWP, it is not possible to export records or save them as PDF, so if you want to do this, you could launch in your IWP session a FileMaker script from a IWP shared file on a machine (local or remote) on which FileMaker is running, and this file open and shared of course.

You can use a plug-in do do this, for example, RemoteScripter from 360Works.

You need to do some scripting on the hosted file using the functions the plug-in provides, but it's not difficult to do it.

Script triggers on objects won't work on IWP unless you pressed a button before - launching a script that activates e.g a field on which you assigned a script trigger.

This would be a solution but there may be other ways..

Jean-Philippe