Script Steps Reference
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About script steps
- Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
- Control script steps
- Perform Script
- Pause/Resume Script
- Exit Script
- Halt Script
- If
- Else If
- Else
- End If
- Loop
- Exit Loop If
- End Loop
- Allow User Abort
- Set Error Capture
- Set Variable
- Install OnTimer Script
- Navigation script steps
- Go to Layout
- Go to Record/Request/Page
- Go to Related Record
- Go to Portal Row
- Go to Object
- Go to Field
- Go to Next Field
- Go to Previous Field
- Enter Browse Mode
- Enter Find Mode
- Enter Preview Mode
- Editing script steps
- Fields script steps
- Set Field
- Set Field By Name
- Set Next Serial Value
- Insert Text
- Insert Calculated Result
- Insert From Index
- Insert From Last Visited
- Insert Current Date
- Insert Current Time
- Insert Current User Name
- Insert Picture
- Insert QuickTime
- Insert Object (Windows)
- Insert File
- Update Link (Windows)
- Replace Field Contents
- Relookup Field Contents
- Export Field Contents
- Records script steps
- New Record/Request
- Duplicate Record/Request
- Delete Record/Request
- Delete Portal Row
- Delete All Records
- Open Record/Request
- Revert Record/Request
- Commit Records/Requests
- Copy Record/Request
- Copy All Records/Requests
- Import Records
- Export Records
- Save Records As Excel
- Save Records As PDF
- Save Records As Snapshot Link
- Found Sets script steps
- Windows script steps
- Files script steps
- Accounts script steps
- Spelling script steps
- Open Menu Item script steps
- Miscellaneous script steps
FILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 63
Options
• Perform without dialog prevents display of the Replace Field Contents dialog box when
the script step executes.
• Select Go to target field or click Specify to specify the target field for the replace operation.
• Click Specify to display the Replace Field Contents dialog box, where you can determine
the settings required for the Replace Field Contents command.
• Replace with "current contents" uses the current value in the specified field as the
replacement value to place in that field in every other record in the current found set.
• Replace with serial numbers reserializes the field in every record in the current found
set.
• Entry options uses the next available value in Entry Options as the first record number,
incrementing with whatever value is in Entry Options.
• Custom Values lets you enter a value to be used as a starting point for the
serialization, as well as a value by which to increment each serialized field in the current
found set.
• Update serial number in Entry Options? resets the serial number value in Entry
Options so that the next serial number that is automatically entered will follow the
records you have reserialized with this script step. If this option is not used, the serial
value in Entry Options is not changed, and may not be in sequence with the newly
reserialized records.
• If the field to be replaced was set up for auto-entry of a serial number and Prohibit
modification of value is not selected, FileMaker Pro will still put sequential numbers in
the selected field, but will do so starting with the next number to be automatically
entered.
• Replace with calculated result displays the Specify Calculation dialog box, where you
can enter a calculation to be used as the replacement value.
Compatibility
This script step is also supported in web publishing and in a FileMaker Server scheduled script.
Notes
• This script step can also be used to reserialize a field in every record in the current
found set.
• When you use the Replace Field Contents script step, the data must be committed first
before the operation is performed, or you may get unexpected results. For example, if a
field value is modified and a replace is attempted before the data is committed, then the
replace will be based on the old data rather than the modified data.
FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier
Examples
Sort Records [Restore]
Go to Record/Request/Page [First]
Replace Field Contents [No dialog; script examples::Serial Number; Serial
numbers]