Our team of consultants and developers do this by developing custom-fit software tools and reporting dashboards that help businesses find, use, and understand their data, freeing them to focus on and grow their core business. This article was also published on About Skeleton Key Skeleton Key helps turn complex, complicated, and outdated systems into true information platforms. Do you need to call scripts dynamically? Are you willing to give up FileMaker Pro Advanced’s ability to keep track of your script names if/when you rename them? Good luck experimenting and happy FileMaking! Jay Sayers is a FileMaker 16 Certified Developer at Skeleton Key in St. Take some time to define your application’s needs and your approach to development. That is the beauty of FileMaker Pro Advanced…it gives developers options. The use of Perform Script “By name” is not an all or nothing situation. This will not likely change our approach to programming in the immediate future for all projects.įor additional ideas and use cases, there is a fairly thorough “product idea” discussion on the FileMaker Community website. If your layout buttons use Perform Script By name with FileMaker Pro Advanced 17, layout elements could come before scripts since the name of the script a button is associated to evaluates at the time the button is clicked or script-triggered. The order is necessary for layout buttons to stay connected to the scripts they run. With FileMaker 16 and earlier, when copying layout objects and scripts from one project to another, FileMaker developers paste scripts first, then layout elements. Instead of hard-coding several Perform Script steps, it would be possible to work through a list of script names which might be provided in a script parameter, possibly formatted as a JSON object.
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