![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, invisible characters called BOM ( Byte Order Mark) have been added to the start of the document in the export process by FileMaker. You get returns-in-field and tabs-in-field exported ‘as is’. Line endings (invisible carriage returns) have been displayed for clarity, and the character set is displayed at the bottom of the window. Let’s view the freshly-exported file in BBEdit (on the PC, you might try NotePad++ or UltraEdit). Note: since this is a single-field, special purpose export, the options are limited compared to other FileMaker exports.įileMaker does not give you the option to select an “Output file character set” in the Specify Field Order dialog, as with other export formats, and the resulting text file will be encoded as UTF-16 ( Little-Endian). All text in the specified field is exported to a single file (without the text formatting, of course). It also may be a contextual menu item, accessible by right+clicking (or Ctrl-clicking on the Mac) to see the menu. This is a script step that does what it says (see the Help Topic on this). ![]() Using this sample text in one field (and one record) we will make different exports and review the results: But first we’ll explain the good, the bad and the ugly of some different standard ways to export TEXT out of FileMaker. Have you ever wanted to export a single field and maintain all the characters in that field? This article explores the possibility with XML Export and the use of a simple XSLT. ![]()
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