FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

Performing, resuming, or stopping scripts
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To Do this
Perform a script from the Script
menu
Perform a script from the
Define Scripts dialog box
Perform a script using a
keyboard shortcut
Using ScriptMaker and buttons 5-19
Choose the script name from the Script menu.
Choose ScriptMaker from the Script menu. Select the script
name, and then click Perform.
Type the keyboard shortcut. (See “Reordering scripts in the
Script menu” on page 5-18.)
Perform a script from a button Switch to a layout that contains a button for the script. In
Browse or Find mode, click the button.
Perform a script when opening
or closing a FileMaker Pro file
In the Preferences dialog box, set the option to perform a
startup or shutdown script. See “Setting document
preferences” on page 9-7.
Continue a script after it pauses Click Continue in the status area, or press Return. If you
switch layouts while a script is paused and then continue the
script, remaining script steps occur in the new layout.
Stop a paused script Click Cancel in the status area, switch to another mode,
close the active window, or quit FileMaker Pro.
Stop a script (except when it is
paused)
Press Command-period, hide or close the active window, or
quit FileMaker Pro. If the script contains a Close or Toggle
Window step that hides the active window, FileMaker Pro
stops the current script and returns to the script that called
it (if there is one).
Note You can’t stop a script that contains the Allow User Abort [Off]
step.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:
E scripts, performing