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FileMaker 18 Set Error Logging: the new favorite script step for all FileMaker developers

Keefer Rogers May 22, 2019

The new script step Set Error Logging in FileMaker 18 improves all aspects of debugging! Expecting, preventing, and handling errors are extremely important in any solution. Inevitably, errors will happen unexpectedly. The process of…

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FileMaker 18 Script Step Changes

Keefer Rogers May 22, 2019

This video reveals some the changes to the following script steps: Convert File, Open Help, Upload to FileMaker Host, Open My Apps, and Insert from URL. If any of those steps are in your solutions, you will want to know if these changes…

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FM DevCon 16 / Innovation: FileMaker Go and iOS Apps – One Step Integration

Keefer Rogers Aug 17, 2016

URL schemes allow you to communicate with many apps simply using URLs. For example, FileMaker’s “fmp:” scheme lets you run scripts in a hosted FileMaker file. Using just the “Open URL” script step, we can use URL schemes to open iOS apps…

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The Set Error Capture FileMaker Script Step – FileMaker Today

Keefer Rogers Apr 9, 2015

We all have had the experience of encountering a FileMaker error message. The most common occurrence is when FileMaker tells you that it didn't find any records that match your settings in a find command. Which isn't so much an…

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The FileMaker Loop Script Step – FileMaker Today

Keefer Rogers Nov 7, 2014

FileMaker loop scripts will cycle a set of script steps over and over again until it receives an indication to exit the loop. Scripts with loops are one of the main ways to have FileMaker perform …

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The FileMaker (Exit Loop If) Script Step – FileMaker Today

Keefer Rogers Oct 29, 2014

Used to determine what set of conditions need to be met to exit out of an established ScriptMaker looping routine. This is based upon using the calculation dialog box to establish those “end loop” parameters. Here is a brief…

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FileMaker’s Allow User Abort Script Step – FileMaker Today

Keefer Rogers Oct 20, 2014

This is one of the more important script steps in regards to running a script in a highly controlled manner. The Allow User Abort script step either allows or does not allow the end user to cancel out of a script that is current…

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The FileMaker Go To Related Record Script Step – FileMaker Today

Keefer Rogers Sep 15, 2014

Commonly referred to as GTRR for short, this step goes to the defined related record in the related file and brings the related file's window to the front. If the user is within a portal when the script is executed, GTRR will go to that…

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A Little About The FileMaker Exit Script Step – FileMaker Today

Keefer Rogers Sep 5, 2014

Used to stop the currently running FileMaker script and will follow shortly after an IF or Else If script step. So this portion of the script is looking for something in particular about the FileMaker record at that moment in time…

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The FileMaker Pause / Resume Script Step – FileMaker Today

Keefer Rogers Sep 2, 2014

Works like the pause button on a DVD player, you can setup this script step to pause a current running script. Paused scripts can even be given a defined time duration before they start running again. HOW IT IS…

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