Recent content by chris55

the way I fixed this was as follows - for some reason - it doesn't like it in 10.4 if you don't specify a username.. set theUser to do shell script "echo $USER" mount volume "VoulmeName" on server "serverIPorDNS" as user name theUser this doesn't need to be in a Finder tell either - as...

I wasn't talking about Work Requests specifically, just Filemaker in general. In fact, included with the application are a bunch of database templates that just might suit the need, without having to buy anything additional..and if those don't fit the problem exactly - you can always modify...

I don't think what your trying to do will work the way you describe - but you could probably fake it. What I mean is - make a droplet that users drop files onto - then the droplet can do the move to the folder - and record where they came from, and then the folder action can print out the list...

Sounds like it would be pretty easy to do with php and/or a shell script - as long as there are some recognizable delimiters in the mail messages. Ie: maybe use awk to parse the messages into the various parts - then just use mysql in php to distribute to a dbase. Post an example of a...

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Probably worth noting the awf -F (field separator) flag. This is more useful than $0 in most situations... echo 1 2 3 4 | awk -F "\t" '{print $1}' returns: 1 2 3 4 You can set the field sep. to anything you want - in this case I set it to a tab - instead of the default which is a space..

it's more likely the computer is crashing and she doesn't know it. Have her see if the caps-lock key lights up when the mouse does this - if it doesn't, she's crashed and has another problem.