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Scripting interactions with iOS apps

Scripting interactions with iOS apps - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Scripting interactions with iOS apps

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- [Instructor] Okay. So we've established that there are other apps besides FileMaker Go that can respond to URL schemes. Inside the exercise file for this course, I'm having a little bit of fun with some of these examples. So first of all, how do we actually get a FileMaker app? Which we have on screen here to communicate with other apps? Well, it's pretty easy. Since the syntax that we see here to dial a phone number just happens to be adding the letters T-E-L and a colon in front of the phone number. It's pretty easy for us to construct. So let's say we have a field that contains a phone number, and then what script would we use to dial that phone? Well, each of these fields is a button and I'm simply using one single script step. Open URL script step, and all I'm doing is passing it the URL scheme based on the different application. And if you've got a copy of FileMaker Pro Advanced, you can go and look at the custom…

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