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Comment on FileMaker Scripting & Calcs. Now in Color! by Terrell

Terrell — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:20:43 +0000

When will it come out for the PC?

Comment on Controlling Microsoft Word from FileMaker by Controlling Microsoft Word from FileMaker | Filemaker Info

Controlling Microsoft Word from FileMaker | Filemaker Info — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:29:15 +0000

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Comment on Automate PDF Printing from FileMaker by IT_User

IT_User — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:55:14 +0000

The problem of not having permission. I played around with it for a while. I had to change it to the Full Path structure instead of the POSIX path structure.
This could be avoided if the filename does not contain space or extra “.”

Comment on Spawning FileMaker by Tim Cimbura

Tim Cimbura — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:12:08 +0000

A simple way to do this is to have FileMaker Advanced and regular FileMaker installed on the same computer. Then you can have 2 instances of FileMaker running no tricks.

Comment on Spawning FileMaker by Brian Schick

Brian Schick — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:24:39 +0000

Hi Hal,

Thanks for the mention, and nice post.Your extension of the raw terminal command into a an Automator Spawn.fm app is a great idea that should make it a lot easier to do this quickly on the fly.

As you suggest, I wouldn’t want to use this in a production situation, but it can be a very helpful development tool. I find this especially useful for testing web viewer widgets and anything else that leverages the fmp:// protocol when I want to try out a quick dev idea in Pro or Advanced.

Last — but not least — that spawning graphic you created is nicely done indeed

Comment on Spawning FileMaker by Hal Gumbert

Hal Gumbert — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:46:21 +0000

I’m literally just trying this out for the first time today, but it does open another instance.

I’m hoping to use this idea to run our estimate / billing db in one instance and then use other instances to work on client databases. Great part is being able to run scripts that run for long periods of time without resorting to needing another computer.

I was able to open our billing app in two instances at once. I do expect the FMP url to act wonky since it won’t know which instance to respond to…

Comment on Spawning FileMaker by Perren Smith

Perren Smith — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:02:11 +0000

It’s the same installed instance. If you have volume licensing it works just fine, but if you’re working with boxed license you mileage may vary…haven’t tested it personally.

Comment on Spawning FileMaker by Darren Burgess

Darren Burgess — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:00:11 +0000

Hal, Is this opening the same installed instance of FileMaker, or used to open another installation (with a separate license key)

Comment on Spawning FileMaker by Agnes Riley (@agir)

Agnes Riley (@agir) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:57:38 +0000

Spawning FileMaker http://t.co/q9Fp00ac04 (via@campsoftware) #FileMaker

Comment on FileMaker Scripting & Calcs. Now in Color! by HOnza

HOnza — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:14:06 +0000

I have recently discovered this as a surprise after installing the plug-in to do some OCR tests. SInce this was after installing multiple plug-ins at once it took me some time to figure out which plug-in provided this neat functionality. Especially because it remained functional after I disabled the plug-in in Preferences…