MoneyWorks support
Interfacing with MS Office
Did you know that MoneyWorks works well with Microsoft Office? You can pull reports directly into Excel, mail merge directly into Word, set your budgets straight from Excel and more. To show you how this works, we've provided some sample … Continue reading
Interfacing to MoneyWorks using COM/VBS
It is possible to attach front-end data entry systems, external data analysis, executive query facilities etc to MoneyWorks using Visual Basic (or other COM/OLE Automation-compliant scripting languages). The commands Open: Open the specified document Usage: Open (path as string) ' … Continue reading
Deimplemented messages in external helper scripts
In MoneyWorks 7, the following messages are no longer sent to external helper scripts. OpenedDocument AllowCloseDocument ClosedDocument AllowSaveDocument SavedDocument The following messages are still sent to an external helper script. The UserLoggedIn/UserLoggingOut are not sent even if password protection is … Continue reading
Registering External Helper Scripts on 64-bit Windows
The MoneyWorks GUI app runs in 32-bit mode, so external Helper scripts need to be registered as 32 bit. The following batch file will register a Helper.wsc in your custom plugins on 64-bit Windows 7. set REGTOOL="C:\Windows\SYSWOW64\REGSVR32.EXE" set TARGET="C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\MoneyWorks Custom … Continue reading
Downloads
MoneyWorks Automation Guide Manpage.pdf CLI PHP example (OS X) PHP source FileMakerGo and mwRest sample (460k) Plug-ins and tutorial for FileMaker 7 - 10 (300k) FileMaker Pro 5.5 - 7 Tutorial (350k)
Using MoneyWorks Datacentre over the internet
This article describes how to set up a MoneyWorks Datacentre server to make it available to clients connecting over the internet. Requirements Most office networks are connected to the internet via a VDSL or fibre router. You will need: Administrative … Continue reading
MoneyWorks 7
Key new features These are the headline new features for MoneyWorks 7. This version concentrates more on the internals and technical and usability improvements, rather than features per-se. Faster—Optimisations in the core database have yielded speed improvements which in some … Continue reading
Attachable Scripts
As of MoneyWorks Gold 7, attached platform-specific helper scripts are deprecated in favour of document-based MWScript scripts. You can write a script which MoneyWorks will send messages to every time something happens with the user interface (open window, validate window, … Continue reading
Applescript Suite
Use Applescript commands to interface MoneyWorks to other programs running on the same Mac. Note: As of v7, the recommended technology for implementing automation within MoneyWorks is MWScript. Unless otherwise noted, AppleEvents are only accepted if there is no modal … Continue reading
CLI Overview
MoneyWorks may be used from the command line for automating tasks, such as data import, data export, and reporting. On Mac, use /usr/bin/moneyworks (MoneyWorks Gold must be installed). On Windows, use moneyworks.exe in the MoneyWorks Datacentre folder in Program Files. … Continue reading