Troi Activator Plug-in

Troi Automatisering

Trigger a script on a different computer, even over internet

Trigger scripts from anywhere, trigger events at scheduled times or use as an image upload server.

Troi Activator Plug-in is a very powerful tool for triggering scripts remotely. All from within FileMaker you can trigger a FileMaker script on a different computer (remotely) or trigger a FileMaker script over internet.
Use the built-in security to prevent unauthorized triggering. You can send a number (e.g. a record ID) and a long text with the trigger and start and stop listening for remote trigger messages with a script step. Communicate with databases in different FileMaker versions or even runtimes!

Except from remote triggering you can also use the Activator Plug-in for triggering a script on a specified date and time. Schedule events which trigger any script you want! You can start a script, where the name of the script is determined by a calculation. Or monitor a folder and start a script when a file or folder is added, removed or modified.

The Activator Plug-in has a built-in HTTP Server, which will trigger a script when data arrives. You can use this functionality to trigger a script with a URL, using the HTTP GET method. Troi Activator Plug-in can also serve as an Image Upload Server. It can receive uploaded images including GPS coordinates. With the GPS coordinates a location on a map can be shown. You can use this functionality to easily upload data from remote devices. The HTTP server also has an echo function. This will echo back the HTTP request, including the method and headers used. This can help with debugging an HTTP problem. Use this functionality for example to test HTTP requests with custom headers you want to send with Troi URL Plug-in.

Troi Activator Plug-in can trigger silent events and background events. This allows you to keep the main application free, while the background FileMaker application, for example a runtime application, does some time consuming work on data.

Troi Activator has a control function to disable all script triggers, so you can do maintenance on the database.

Suggested uses include creating a real-time appointment solution, notifying colleagues (on a different computer) that a shared document is ready, accept HTTP GET and POST requests to activate a script, automatically process new files that are added to a folder (see our File Plug-in for all kinds of file manipulation functions), start processing scientific data on a lab computer (see our Serial Plug-in for connecting to devices with a serial interface), keep the main application free, while the background FileMaker application, for example a runtime application, does some time consuming work on data etcetera. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination!