What Is Advanced Scripting?

Chapter 9, "Getting Started with Scripting," presented an introduction to FileMaker Pro scripting techniques. It covered such topics as error trapping, linking scripts together via subscripts, conditional branching, looping scripts, and using custom dialogs. These are all essential scripting techniques that you should become familiar with.

This chapter explores several additional scripting techniques, including working with script parameters and managing windows . Although we think that everyone can potentially benefit from learning these techniques, they do require a good familiarity with general scripting techniques, calculation formulas, and the Relationships Graph. For this reason, we have opted to present these as "advanced" scripting techniques.

This chapter does not present a comprehensive overview of scripting techniques. Indeed, such an overview could require an entire book of its own. Rather, we have chosen techniques that highlight new features of FileMaker Pro 7 and that we think will have the broadest appeal . Appendix C, "Scripting Reference," contains a complete script reference; refer to that source for additional information about script steps used throughout this chapter.