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Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export

From Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com>
Newsgroups comp.databases.filemaker
Subject Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export
Date 2014-01-28 14:50 -0800
Organization FM Professional Solutions
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On 1/28/2014 1:47 PM, Tom E wrote:
> I see the output to put the file name in the Specify Output box - but not sure how to script the current date to each file that I export?
>
> On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:32:40 PM UTC-5, Tom E wrote:
>> Version FM12
>>
>>
>>
>> Still having issues creating a script that puts the current date in a file name. The current script I have saves the export to a PDF.  When you specify the output file name in Specify Output File I don't see any other options?


Set Variable [ $filePath ;
    get(desktopPath) & "MyFile_" &
    Let( dt = get(currentdate);
       year(x) &
       right("00" & month(x); 2) &
       right("00" & day(x); 2)
    ) & ".ext"
]

Save as PDF [ $filePath ]

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Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-01-28 09:32 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2014-01-28 20:12 +0100
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-01-28 13:47 -0800
    Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2014-01-28 14:50 -0800
      Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2014-01-29 13:08 +1300
        Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2014-01-28 20:18 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-01-29 10:25 -0800
    Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export JayBee <Jennifer_Beecroft@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-30 02:02 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 18:44 -0800
    Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2014-03-05 20:47 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 10:30 -0800
    Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2014-03-06 10:49 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 10:44 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 10:47 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 11:17 -0800
    Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2014-03-06 12:49 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export Tom E <tevanoff65@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 11:28 -0800
  Re: Need Help - Current Date in the File Name when export jesusruiz@macfix.mobi - 2016-05-23 21:30 -0700

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