Hello,
MAC OSX, FMPA 9
Is it possible to specify a full data source file path in the Edit
Data Source list that refers to the system startup disk without
knowing what the end user actually named their start up disk?
I know where the file will reside on the users system - the
applications folder of their system disk,  I just don't know what
name
they gave their startup disk.  I was hoping there was a generic name
similar to the applescript  "startup disk"

Example of one of my failed attempt.
filemac:/System Startup/Applications/FolderName/filename.fp7

Thanks

On 2009-03-27 01:01:25 +0100, vcirilli <vcirilli@dslextreme.com> said:

> Hello,
> MAC OSX, FMPA 9
> Is it possible to specify a full data source file path in the Edit
> Data Source list that refers to the system startup disk without
> knowing what the end user actually named their start up disk?
> I know where the file will reside on the users system - the
> applications folder of their system disk,  I just don't know what
> name
> they gave their startup disk.  I was hoping there was a generic name
> similar to the applescript  "startup disk"
> 
> Example of one of my failed attempt.
> filemac:/System Startup/Applications/FolderName/filename.fp7
> 
> Thanks

In filemaker 10 you have:
Use Get(SystemDrive)
Set a variable like $Filepath. Use the Variable in the Edit Data Source 
list... or the open file dialog in a script.

Returns /C:/ in Windows when the operating system is on the C: drive.
Returns /DriveName/ in the Mac�OS when the operating system is on a 
volume named DriveName.


Regards Nicolay

Nicolay Flaaten <nflaaten_deltetethis@online_hatespam.no> wrote:

> On 2009-03-27 01:01:25 +0100, vcirilli <vcirilli@dslextreme.com> said:
> 
> > Hello,
> > MAC OSX, FMPA 9
> > Is it possible to specify a full data source file path in the Edit
> > Data Source list that refers to the system startup disk without
> > knowing what the end user actually named their start up disk?
> > I know where the file will reside on the users system - the
> > applications folder of their system disk,  I just don't know what
> > name
> > they gave their startup disk.  I was hoping there was a generic name
> > similar to the applescript  "startup disk"
> > 
> > Example of one of my failed attempt.
> > filemac:/System Startup/Applications/FolderName/filename.fp7
> 
> In filemaker 10 you have:
> Use Get(SystemDrive)
> Set a variable like $Filepath. Use the Variable in the Edit Data Source
> list...

Doesn't work. I tried when answering this question in another thread.
See Message-ID
<97e36721-3f47-44a8-9c6e-387e46e3dba7@y6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> for
the other therad.

You can't use variables in paths to an external data source (in either
FMPro 9 or 10).

> or the open file dialog in a script.

That will work in some contexts (e.g. specifying a file for an export),
but not for external data sources (which can't be defined by scripts, as
far as I know).

> Returns /C:/ in Windows when the operating system is on the C: drive.
> Returns /DriveName/ in the Mac OS when the operating system is on a 
> volume named DriveName.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz