finding path of a the current filemaker database

[EnzoMeireles]

hello all,

I’ve spent loooots of hours trying to do this, find a way to do it, but nothing…

here’s the problem:

I have a database open in fileMaker.
I will run an applescript from my database, which should do the following:

1. find the path to the current database
2. open a file sittuated in a folder next to that database.

well, only point 1 is the difficult here, since once I get the path to my database I will be able to open anything next to it.

I tried to find the path to a script in script editor, but the best it would do was get the path to the app…

Is there a way to get the path of a specific filename and not providing the initial path?

TIA

enzo

[Rob]

In FileMaker 6 (maybe earlier versions as well), you can create a calculation field whose value is ‘Status (CurrentFilePath)’. You can then retrieve the value via AppleScript and use it to construct the path.

– Rob

[EnzoMeireles]

nice one Rob!, works great!

what if I wanted to find the path of a pdf opened in acrobat? (this one is out of curiosity)

[Rob]

what if I wanted to find the path of a pdf opened in acrobat? (this one is out of curiosity)

I don’t know if it’s possible or how to do it.

– Rob

[jonn8]

Here’s the code for the path to the front PDF open in Acrobat:

–Click here to open this script in a new Script Editor window.

tell application “Acrobat 5.0” to return file alias of document 1

Jon

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[EnzoMeireles]

Here’s the code for the path to the front PDF open in Acrobat:

–Click here to open this script in a new Script Editor window.

tell application “Acrobat 5.0” to return file alias of document 1

Jon

it doesn’t work for me…
It displays an error: ‘can’t make some data into the expected type’
(and I had a pdf document open)