Filemaker checking for empty fields

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#1

I have battled to get filemaker to copy a field, then perform an applescript step to trigger an applescript saved application. This saved application goes to a web site and pastes the info using gui keyboard strokes and sets 4 variables in turn using
“set cell1 to text of (the clipboard)”
this works, but I am now trying to populate only the empty fields of the same filemaker record with the returned data.
I tried “If is empty” but that is filemaker script.
This
tell application “FileMaker Developer”
activate
if count the words of the field “make” of the current record = 0 then
set the field “make” to 567 (* Just a test number*)
end if
end tell
gives a message saying that another user accessing the record which I presume is the count of words line.
I have looked in the past posts etc registered and sent this, can anyone help, :confused: thanks Roger

Model: G4
AppleScript: 1.10.6
Browser: Firefox 1.5.0.2
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)

#2

Thanks it now works perfectly well almost. Your bit was great but I do not really understand why the script would work, the saved as application would work, but neither would work as, perform applescript … in filemaker. However it did work as an apple event launch the application.

Thanks again Roger