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
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Related topics
Export Records script step
Import Records script step
Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
Contents
Save Records As PDF
Purpose
Saves records to a specified PDF file.
Format
Save Records As PDF [Append; No dialog; “<output filename>”; Automatically
open; Create email; User specified options]
Note In order to save records as a PDF file, your privilege set must include Allow printing, or you
must select Run script with full access privileges in the Edit Script dialog box.
Options
• Select Append to existing PDF to append the records being browsed, the current record,
or a blank record after the last page of the specified PDF file. When you append records,
the PDF Options dialog box settings in the Document and Initial View tabs are ignored, but
the settings in the Security tab are maintained.
• Perform without dialog prevents dialog boxes from displaying when the script step
executes if a file has already been specified.
• Select Specify output file or click Specify to display a dialog box where you can specify
the file path. Choose the folder you want to save to, or type the file path directly into the list.
Specify one path per line. FileMaker Pro will use the first path it locates.You can choose to
Automatically open file or you can choose to Create email with file as attachment after
saving.
• Select Specify options or click Specify to display the "Save Records as PDF" dialog box.
From the Save list, choose Records being browsed, Current record, or Blank record. If
you select Blank record, the Appearance option is enabled.
Select Options to display the PDF Options dialog box.
• In the Document tab, you can specify descriptive information for the PDF file. For each
of the options in the document tab, you can enter text directly, or click Specify to enter a
field name or values from a calculation.
• In the Security tab, you can assign passwords to the PDF file, as well as print and edit
privileges. If print and edit privileges are allowed, you can specify if copying and screen
reading software are permitted.
• In the Initial View tab, you can define the initial view for the layout and magnification for
the PDF file.