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Export Headers    Download     Tip File    Version 18
Export to a Text File with Custom Headers
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The possibilities are almost endless with the new Data File scripts in FileMaker 18. You can read and write any file but it’s really designed for text files. In this example, I show how to add custom field headers to a tab-separated text file exported from FileMaker. In the past, I’ve done some crazy things to get custom headers on a file including making a fake record containing the names of the fields and looping through the records to accumulate the data in a global and then exporting with Export Field Contents script step.