Recently upon visiting one of our affiliates I discovered a cool trick originally created by Jack Knoll (a.k.a. The Wiz). Some of you may have already discovered this and I'm just a bit slow, but for those of you like me, here's how it works.
When opening a Filemaker db on the network as a guest, I've always used the HOSTS button on the open file dialog to find the correct file. This works fine, but requires 4 clicks.
By simply adding the attached file "Open E-base.fp5" to your desktop, you can use only 1 click to access the hosted file. Just dbl-click this file and it will browse the network for any file named ebase.102 that is available. How? the attached file has a script that is executed when you open it and searches for ebase.102(*). The * is the location, when the network file is up, it will quickly find it and open as if you selected HOSTS from the Filemaker dialog.
So here's the question for you savvy FM developers... How does one change this script to open a file with a different name (e.g. ebase.103). I've tried to specify the file but it will only allow me to select an actual file and will not give me the opportunity to use the *.
So for all of you with ebase.102, go for it. For anyone else, can you help me change it?
Tompkins Spann
Assistant Director - Field Technology
Constituency Development, NARAL
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