You could set up a timed script to run on the PC using script triggers:

1. A script on the Mac sets the value of a field as a flag, eg,
UpdateInventory = 1. The field UpdateInventory can't be a global.

2. The timed script on the PC checks if UpdateInventory = 1 and if so,
does the QuickBooks functions and resets UpdateInventory to 0.

So the timed PC script would have to run pretty often so there's not
too much time lag, and you have to deal with the issue of what to do
when the PC FileMaker is being used by someone.


On 13 September 2010 12:03, André Boey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Syncing data from QuickBooks. So, for example, if I'm on a Mac and I want to
> see an up-to-the-minute inventory count, I have to go over to the PC, run
> the sync script which requests the data from QuickBooks, then go back to my
> Mac to work with the data. Sure, I could do it all on the PC—FileMaker is
> FileMaker after all. But I prefer to use the Mac. Hence my query.
>
> On Sep 12, 2010, at 20:36, Tim Mansour wrote:
>
>> A lateral-thinking question, André: what's the plug-in actually doing?
>>
>> On Monday, September 13, 2010, André <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to trigger a FileMaker script on a PC from a Mac?
>>>
>>> Both PC and Mac are running FMP 10, and both have the same remote file
>>> open served on FMS 9. The reason the script has to run on the PC is that it
>>> calls external functions from a Windows-only plug-in.
>>>
>



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