Automating FileMaker Pro: Scripting, Calculations, and Data Transfer
Everything you ever wanted to know about scripting, calculations, and data transfer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Automating FileMaker Pro: Scripting, Calculations, and Data Transfer
Chapter 5: Database Steps
Overview
The steps in this chapter are used to manipulate the database itself. They can be placed in scripts that are executed over a network and from Web users. If you can, avoid mixing these script steps with the interface steps in the previous chapter. (You can use subscripts to enforce this separation.)
Editing
These are the standard editing commands that are the meat and potatoes of all graphical user interfaces.
Undo
This is the same Undo command that is found in the Edit menu.
Category
Editing
Options
None
Cut
The standard Cut command that you use from the Edit menu acts on the current selection. The Cut script step allows you to do that or to determine the selection with its options.
Category
Editing
Options
FIELD Use the Specify button to select the field on which the Cut step will operate. If no field is selected with the Specify button, the currently selected field in the current layout is acted on. If no field is selected in the current layout or with the Specify button, nothing happens.
SELECT ENTIRE CONTENTS If you check this option, the entire contents of the field are selected and then cut. If this is not checked, the selection made by the user in the field is cut. If nothing is selected, nothing is done.
Copy
This step operates basically as the Cut step does; however, instead of removing the selection, it copies it to the clipboard. (This is the same as the...
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