You don’t have to open and close the file, as that is automatically handled by the ‘Set Contents of File’ script step.įileMaker’s ‘Write Data to File’ step lets you choose the character encoding to be UTF-16 (little endian) or UTF-8. With Troi File Plug-in you can perform the same action using its ‘ Create File‘ and ‘ Set Contents of File‘ script steps (or their equivalent functions in FileMaker 15 and earlier). After that you need to close the file again. You can use these to create a new (text) file, which you can then open and write data from your database into. Here you’ll find how the native file functionality of FileMaker 18 compares to the features of Troi File Plug-in.įileMaker 18 adds the new script steps ‘Create Data File’, ‘Open Data File’, ‘Write to Data File’ and ‘Close Data File’. In previous versions of FileMaker these external file manipulations were only possible with the help of Troi File Plug-in. FileMaker Pro 18 adds a number of new file script steps.

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