I would like add text to an export file either by a sript, a shell
lauch by filemaker.

Do you have some idea for me?

Thank you.


Filemaker 8.0 with OSX

In article <1165807079.084427.292050 (AT) 79g2000cws (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
"yog27" <ssimard (AT) macadam (DOT) ca> wrote:

It depends what you mean by "add text". It's not really possible to add
more text to an existing file.

You can of course use fields to store the text and export those along
with all the others from FileMaker.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Assuming that you have something similar to batch files under Windows, I would
put the append or preprend text in a file, then use the copy command to make
"filec" equal to "filea" + "fileb"

A possible workaround is a record that contains the necessary text in a note
field, while all other records have that filed empty. To avoid having an extra
delimiter everywhere, you might have to create your own export field that
contains all the fields you want exported.

Thus (if wanting tab delimited):

Outputfield= if notefield="";fielda+[tab]+fieldb+[tab]+fieldc+...; [else]
notefield

Kent



yog27 wrote:

With the assistance of a plugin such as Troi File, it's possible.

Matt

On 12/11/2006 00:22:20 Helpful Harry <helpful_harry (AT) nom (DOT) de.plume.com> wrote:

In article <12111519.GWMANEGS (AT) news (DOT) verizon.net>, Matt Wills
<Im (AT) witz (DOT) end> wrote:

I knew as soon as I'd logged off that someone would say there was a
plug-in and I should have said "not possible with standard FileMaker".
It's probably also possible using an AppleScript / Terminal commands,
but you would have to really want to do it before bothering with that
adding complexity. )

Depending on what's actually in the text files, it's probably easier to
simply import it into a FileMaker table and then re-export it with the
additional records / text.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)