Tami, I'd use a stay-open AppleScript application with an "on idle"
handler. It would initially be launched from a FileMaker script and
would observe a FM global field to know when to quit.

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On 14/05/2011, at 14:18, Tami Williams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I need to have a script run every 15 minutes in FileMaker 6.  Any ideas on how to do it?
>
> The databases are hosted on a Windows server and the users (that need the script) are on Macs.  Other users (that don't need the script) are on PCs.
>
> Ideally users would click a button in FileMaker 6 that does an action then every 15 minutes afterwards they'd get a dialog message, until they clicked another button then set a field value that would then stop the message.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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