get field content as text of arecord in filemaker6 and rename a file..

I’ll continue to work at this… now that there is a working base, I should be able to go back and clean it up. What is your processing speed and RAM? This works pretty fast, but I have tons of RAM.

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That’s why I apologized for the translations… Colloquio a voi presto!
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PS: Since it works, you could run it while you sleep until we dial it in :lol:




--Get your folder
set theFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the target Folder for name search"
tell application "Finder"
	--Reference to a folder
	set FolderRef to theFolder as string
	--Gets contents of folder ready for processing
	set TheFiles to items of folder theFolder
end tell

--Get your database file
set Database to choose file with prompt "Select the database file"
--Open the database
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
	activate
end tell
tell application "Finder"
	open Database
end tell
--get the name of database
set thisDatabase to displayed name of (info for Database) as string
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
	
	go to database thisDatabase
	
	--get field names
	set IDFields to name of fields of database thisDatabase
	--choose field from list
	set UIFieldChoice to choose from list IDFields with prompt "Choose Field of Database '" & thisDatabase & "'"
	set SelectedField to result as string
	--get contents of selection
	set theField to field SelectedField of database thisDatabase
	
	--loop through records in field
	repeat with ThisRecord in theField
		if SelectedField is "false" then exit repeat --'Cancel button' to get out of repeat
		--Get the first word of the text
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
		set KeyWord to first text item of ThisRecord as string
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
		
		--Search the filenames of 'theFiles in theFolder' for the KeyWord, regardless of position or case
		try
			repeat with CurrentFile in TheFiles
				
				try --This deals with "filename not found" error
					set CurrentFilename to displayed name of CurrentFile as string
					
					
					--conditional statement finds keyword in filename
					
					if (CurrentFilename as string) contains (KeyWord as string) then
						
						--get the file extension
						set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
						set FileExt to last text item of CurrentFilename as string
						set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
						
						
						
						--Rename file to selected field text
						tell application "Finder"
							
							set name of CurrentFile to ThisRecord & "." & FileExt
							
						end tell
						
						exit repeat --*Now if the filename is changed, the script will stop searching and go to next record
						
					end if
					
				end try
			end repeat
		end try
	end repeat
end tell

I made the change as noted above: When looking for a filname text match, if a match is found and the filename is changed, the search is exited, and the next record search begins.
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