Filemaker Pro Tough Scripting Question

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AKMedia

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Can't find this anywhere at all... In a Filemaker Pro contact database, I want to create a script that pops up a custom dialog box to remind the user to place a follow up telephone call to a contact one hour (or 30 minutes, or whatever) from the time the user initiates the script (presses a "reminder" button or whatever). The script should run in the background so that the user can continue to use the database and, in fact, the user should ideally be able to initiate the script again for other reminders for other contacts.

In other words this script would be the like the reminder alarm feature in Palm Desktop or Entourage. I've scoured the Filemaker.com site to no avail. So I'm hoping someone can give me a hint on how to accomplish this in Filemaker Pro. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Here's one way.

You'll need to be using FileMaker 6 as I think that allows popup messages that can display they value of a field, not just static text like previous versions.

FileMaker has no inbuilt way to automatically execute a script at a specified time or interval, so you'll need to use a third party pluggin.

I've used ScriptIt from http://scriptit.cnsplug-ins.com/ to do this type of automation, it's quite comprehensive. You can set script to execute every half hour or set scripts to execute on the fly at any time just once.

If you don't have FM6, you can use another pluggin called SMTPit (from the same company) to email reminder information to the user at the specified time.

Note that depending on how many users you have in the Fm environment, you'll need a copy of scriptIt for each FM client.

Get back to me if you need somemore info.

Nick
 
I've used a FMPro plugin called oazium events very successfully. It allows a number of event triggers and has been very useful to me in our FMPRo applications development. Have a look at it at http://www.wmotion.com

bobj
 
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