EventScript for MacIntel 1.1

EventScript for MacIntel 1.1 offers a simple to use, yet sophisticated plug-in distributed as donationware and is available totally free of charge. It can be used to trigger FileMaker scripts from any calculation. By depending on the evaluation and the result of your calculations, EventScript brings the essential event-based manageability to your FileMaker solutions. This is definitely the missing link between your calculations and your scripts.

Using the plug-in allows you to trigger any script without the need for the user to click a button. The most frequent uses are the "before update", the "after update" and the "on dirty" events. But you can also use EventScript almost anywhere, from auto-enter options and validation rules to privileges sets, custom functions, and the Set Field script step, to name a few. Once the event is triggered by a user, EventScript will automatically launch the script previously chosen by the developer for handling tasks such as auto-protecting your databases, sending an email, or updating a reselling price list. The uses are limited only by your imagination.

EventScript also returns an error flag to signal those cases when the target script could not be launched. This error flag allows you to properly implement error handling for your critical processes. The plug-in accept 3 parameters, The target file name, the target script name and the optional script parameters. EventScript do not give you the possibility to schedule future script triggers. It means that every event triggered is on a right-now basis.

But EventScript can help you realize a lot of great things and its available for both Mac and Windows platforms. His goals are, first, to make the bridge between calculations and the ScriptMaker. Second, to make some good publicity for new and emerging FileMaker consulting company. And third: to be an inexpensive tool for every FileMaker developers and users because we think these event concepts are too important to be formally sold. As you know, "humans are humans..." And people are running many different applications simultaneously on their computer while talking to the phone and taking notes and sometimes, clicking everywhere with their mouse.

Often, FileMaker is only one of the currently running applications and people are too busy to always gives all the attention needed. * Do you really believe that users of your solutions effectively hits the buttons you placed on your layouts? * Are you dreaming that every users will pay attention to what you ask them to do? * Is there automatic reactions that you want to run under particular circumstances but users forgot to hit the corresponding button? * Do you realize some months after delivering your databases that they are now filled with mysterious garbage datas? * Dont you think your FMPro solution can be alive and bring truly interaction between the database application and the user? * Do you really want to take the control over the user interface and get the full power? Using EventScript, you can watch users events like creating a new record, deleting a record, by simply entering their computers cursor into a particular field, after updating a watched field, after putting "garbage data" in a field.

Once the event happens, the calculation where you placed your EventScript call is evaluated by FileMaker and then the script you chose is automatically fired by the plug-in. Any kind of calculation an be use. You can also reserve events to certain users based on their roles inside your application. Simply by matching the events with a specific privilege set and you get an evenemential profile. So you dont bother everyone with, lets say the representatives tasks. Your possible call back script will be triggered only for members of the representatives privilege set and other users will be able to make the same action without triggering this script.

There is many real-life examples included into the downloadables files (Mac or Windows). Its a matter of fact, FileMaker is an outstanding development tool and we love it very much! But good computer applications are able to auto-protect themselves and take reactions upon actions...