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In article <2015100108515775158-SciFiReader@Bellsouthnet>, SciFi_Reader
<SciFi_Reader@Bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to tip my toes in sever side scripting, and running into a 
> couple of problems:
> 
> 1 ) I'm trying to install the free plugin "BaseElements" on the server; 
> I've set the Owner:Group, and rwxrwxr.x permissions, and still get the 
> oh so helpfull error "Pluging not loaded".
>   Anyone have any ideas on that?

Most plug-ins need to be installed on the user's computers, not the
server ... unless the server is running scripts itself that rely on
that plug-in.

Did you quit and restart the FileMaker Server? It could simply be that
the plug-in doesn't actually work with the Server version of FileMaker
or perhaps requires a different license code.




> 2 ) I'm try to do a simple script to find a set of records that meet a 
> computed critea:
>      a varible, unstored, that does the following calculation [ if 
> (on_order + on_backorder > On_hand + Rec_Today + On_Vendor_Order, 1, 
> "")  ]
>  try to do a find on that varible = 1, errors out with "error 16", 
> basicly it dosen't like the find for some reason.
>  Any ideas on this one?
> 
> THANKS !! for any and ALL help.

If you really mean "variable", then my educated guess, not having used
them, is that variables are not stored per record and therefore are not
usable as the target in a Find request.

You'd be best using a new Calculation field, and then performing the
Find on that.

In terms of a Server, Global Fields and variables are unique to each
user (rather than stored on the server for all users) and lost when the
FileMaker user quits, which makes them either useful or useless,
depending on what you're trying to achieve.

Helpful Harry  :o)