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    From Martin =?UTF-8?Q?=CE=A4rautmann?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 16 10:32:50 2020
    Hi all,

    since I still do stick to FMP 11, one question for newer releases:

    Do they offer some kind of script recording by now?

    That is: I do start script recording,
    then I do some operations by hand,
    then I do stop script recording,
    finally I can edit this simple script and give it a proper name

    Mac users may remember script recording from Apple Script.

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  • From Helpful Harry@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 17 10:14:43 2020
    On 2020-05-16 08:32:50 +0000, Martin Ī¤rautmann said:

    Hi all,

    since I still do stick to FMP 11, one question for newer releases:

    Do they offer some kind of script recording by now?

    That is: I do start script recording,
    then I do some operations by hand,
    then I do stop script recording,
    finally I can edit this simple script and give it a proper name

    Mac users may remember script recording from Apple Script.

    There isn't any script recording in FileMaker Pro, althouh many script
    commands do have the ability to store the "current" set-up that was
    performed manually before adding the command to a script or replace script-stored ones with the current manually performed version, for
    example Find Requests.

    Script recording in AppleScript and Automator have always been fairly
    useless since, depending on the app you're creating the script for,
    very little of what you do manually can be scripted anyway.


    Helpful Harry :o)

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  • From Martin =?UTF-8?Q?=CE=A4rautmann?=@21:1/5 to Helpful Harry on Sun May 17 07:43:04 2020
    On Sun, 17 May 2020 10:14:43 +1200, Helpful Harry wrote:
    There isn't any script recording in FileMaker Pro, althouh many script commands do have the ability to store the "current" set-up that was
    performed manually before adding the command to a script or replace script-stored ones with the current manually performed version, for
    example Find Requests.

    That's a pity - it would speed up some script creations.

    Script recording in AppleScript and Automator have always been fairly
    useless since, depending on the app you're creating the script for,
    very little of what you do manually can be scripted anyway.

    Many apps had very poor AS support. But some did pretty well. And using
    AS from within FMP gave some great options for a full integration.

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