Tami

One possibility would be an iCal event every 15 minutes that triggered an "Open File" that opened an FMP db that ran a script upon opening then closed itself.  Ideal for "robot" Macs.  Less ideal for client-attended machines but could be done.

Stephen

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On May 13, 2011, at 10:18 PM, Tami Williams 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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