With her permission, I thought I would share this routine, believing that the basic script structure could be useful in a number of other situations. It is now a one-button action to get the data, which could even be run from her iPhone with FileMaker Go. My friend recently upgraded to FileMaker 17 and I encouraged her to update her old ‘copy and paste’ routine to this more modern method. It is in situations like this, that a parsing routine can come in handy. Unfortunately, many organizations are not there yet, in terms of sharing their data easily. In an ideal world, this data would also be posted to a publicly available JSON file and FileMaker could easily parse that data into records. The ski hill also published their data to a web page. It is a very useful data set (the previous 7 days of grooming reports) to have when you are out on the ski hill, looking for some corduroy or for finding those last remaining stashes of powder a couple of days after the last snowfall. The final stage is to generate a text file summary of recent grooming days for her phone (and smart watch). Once in the database, a script runs that parses the grooming information into fields and records. The ski hill put out their grooming reports as PDFs, so she would download these, then Copy and Paste to get the text into FileMaker. A friend of mine has, for a number of years, been using an older version of FileMaker to grab grooming reports from the local ski hill’s web site.
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