Copy/paste a script

[John Chamberlain]

Maybe my memory is faulty, but I used to be able to copy a script and then paste it into another application (like Word if I wanted to do a bunch of Find/Replace changes - or to paste a script into an inquiry on this Forum). Now I find that I can copy OK, but I can't paste into anything except FMP. Have I got a bug in my application? Should I re-install the FMP program?

 

Thanks,

[Lee Smith]

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This topic has been moved from "Script Triggers" to "Managing Scripts".

[Rick Whitelaw]

I don't remember ever being able to do this and found it annoying. I believe it can be done from a Database Design Report using Advanced, but not from the script edit window itself. There have been several threads wishing for the ability to use a word processor to edit scripts.

[Lee Smith]

Not the way you describe. You can do this using Clip Manager and I think FM Clips.

 

Check them out to see if they do what you want.

[Lee Smith]

I should have ask this to begin with. Are you still using v9 client?

 

I'm not sure if you can copy and paste in the client version? I think you are stuck with importing the scrips?

[John Chamberlain]

No, I am using V11. Neither of the programs you suggested will do what I want, and I KNOW that I have been able to copy and paste into MS Word to make the corrections in the past.

 

I have a script that is quite itterative, and quite long (80 sections at about 10 lines each). It uses field names like Strays Q1, Adopted Q2, etc., and they appear 4 times in each segment.

 

What I need to do is change all thos Q1s etc. to Quarter 1, etc.

 

I don't want to go through and make 320 corrections by hand, but that seems to be my only choice; yes, I know I could just change the field names, but there are other complicating factors.

[Lee Smith]

Take a look at Developer Assistant by Dracoventions, you can search and replace in Scripts, Tables, etc. if that doesn't help maybe someone else has a suggestion.

[Rick Whitelaw]

Once again, there has never been a way to copy a script from the Script Editor and paste it into a word processor.

[bruceR]

And certainly not a way to copy the modified script out of a word processor and put it back into a modified FileMaker script; which seems to be the ultimate goal here.

[John Chamberlain]

OK, I guess my memory is playing tricks on me. Obviously, I must be thinking of cutting and pasting in a calculation routine where you can copy/paste into a word processor. I will mark this one solved, and thanks for all your help.

[Musikman]

Actually this feature did exist.  You did not dream it.  I don't know when it went away, but it was awesome to be able to find and replace items in scripts.  Now the only way I can think of doing that is constructing field names using calculations with variables.  I haven't actually done that, but I have been thinking of it a lot.

[Lee Smith]

Way back v3 or v5 era, there was a program called AutoScript that, as I remember, would allow the transfer of a script from one file to another. It went away at about the time that OSX and / or version 7 was released.

 

As I recall, the tool was replaced by the ability to copy and paste a script between files. I do not remember ever bring able to use a text editor to change a scripts.

 

Lee