Hi,

Trust you do not mind me asking about this but I am not getting much response from the Plug-in vendors.

I have downloaded the demo version of Popcal 3, including the Configuration Wizard and the User Guide.
The Popcal would help make a great solution for me. Problem is, I cannot get it to work!

I have created a test database (Windows, FM6) to test it. I have created a text field called ‘date_txt’ as the target field for the text returned by the plug-in.

The plug-in is enabled and working and its variants can be seen in the ‘External’ bit of Scriptmaker.
However, the problem seems to be in the script I am writing. I have used the Configuration Wizard to configure the calendar, and it has returned the appropriate parameters. These I have pasted in as per my script below.
The problem I am getting is when I go to ‘OK’ the script, I get the Filemaker script alert ‘This field cannot be found’ highlighting the 'Size' field in the parameter. My entire script looks like this (using pasted Popcal parameters):
Set Field (“date txt”)
External ("Popc-SlideRangeSelection", |Size=medium|Format=dd/mm/yyyy|Behavior=automatic|Kind=buttons|FirstDay=sunday|Error=off|Language=english|Title=Date Picker|Separator=/|X=100|Y=100|Position=centered|StartYear=2005|EndYear=2010|FontSize=9|FontName=Verdana|WinRGB=128,128,128|ControlRGB=192,192,192|Effect=uncover|ButtonStyle=normal)

I am new to plug-ins so am probably doing something wrong. Could you tell me what
Sorry, but the User Manual does not have a step by step guide for those people who have never used plug-ins before and need the idiot’s guide to using them.

Hope to get some help.
Many thanks
David

David,

It looks to me like you need to put the entire string in quotes. So your string should be:

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External ("Popc-SlideRangeSelection"; "|Size=medium|Format=dd/mm/yyyy|Behavior=automatic|Kind=buttons|FirstDay=sunday|Error=off|Language=english|Title=Date Picker|Separator=/|X=100|Y=100|Position=centered|StartYear=2005|EndYear=2010|FontSize=9|FontName=Verdana|WinRGB=128,128,128|ControlRGB=192,192,192|Effect=uncover|ButtonStyle=normal")

That worked for me.

Court

Thanks very much Court,

Tried this, but Filemaker says the text constant is longer than 253 characters!

Have also just tried creating a global text field in the database called 'myparameter' and pasting the parameter in there. Then using the the script as follows:

External ("Popc-DateSelection", myparameter)

This seems to work! Perhaps that's how you are supposed to do it, who knows? Just hope the global field keeps the parameter on a restart.

Thank you very much for your help. You sure start work early!

Best regards

David