From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
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Import scripts from other files - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
Import scripts from other files
- [Voiceover] If you run into a situation where you've created the perfect script in another file but you need to do the same thing in the file that you're working on right now, the good news is that you can actually import scripts from file to file. If you go into the Script workspace, you'll see that under the Scripts menu there's an option for import. You can then select the file that has the script that you wish to import and hit Open. Now you'll see a list of all the scripts in that file. I'm gonna select this script right here and hit OK. Now in a lot of cases when you're importing scripts from one file to another, you're gonna run into what are listed here as errors. Now you could open up the log file and try to find out what those errors are but these problems are gonna be highlighted when you hit the OK button. So you'll see here now we've imported this script from the other file but in FileMaker 15 we have this new feature where it highlights some of the problems. Now for…
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Introducing scripts and script steps2m 22s
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Assign script steps to buttons2m 48s
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Tour the Script workspace3m 29s
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Create multiline scripts8m 7s
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Add find criteria to a script7m 56s
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Use the New Window script step7m 16s
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Understand the If script step4m 41s
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Use script parameters2m 46s
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Review the Send Mail script option5m 49s
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Import scripts from other files1m 54s
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