Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Addressbook.people

Topics All Mac OS X (Only) Windows (Only) Linux (Only, Not) iOS (Only, Not)
Components Crossplatform Mac & Win Server Client Old Guides Examples
New in version: 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Statistic

Addressbook.people

Returns an array of all the people in the Address Book database.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Server	FileMaker Cloud	FileMaker iOS SDK
Addressbook	3.1	Yes	No	No	No	Yes

MBS( "Addressbook.people" { ; Account } )

Parameters

Parameter Description Example value

Account Optional
The account identifier to limit search for. _local

Parameter	Description	Example value
Account	Optional The account identifier to limit search for.	_local

Result

Returns list of all person IDs.

Description

Returns an array of all the people in the Address Book database.
If the database doesn't contain any people, this method returns an empty array.

Examples

Get list of people IDs and show name of first person:

Set Variable [$people; Value:MBS( "Addressbook.people" )]
Set Variable [$firstPerson; Value:GetValue($people; 1)]
Show Custom Dialog ["Name of first person"; MBS( "Addressbook.record.displayname"; $firstPerson )]

Example Databases

Mac and iOS/Addressbook/Addressbook

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 17th March 2016

Addressbook.multivalue.values - Addressbook.persistentAccounts