Question : Birthday reminders

I have a personnel database with a field containing date of birth as a 4 digit year date. I would like to write a script that reminds me of any birthday seven days in advance upon opening filemaker and then allows me to easily remove this reminder when I have sent them a card. In other words, an Outlook type task arrangement. Help much appreciated!

Answer : Birthday reminders

yes, normal, the variable does not get interpreted in this case... fmaker is very basic for this, it is expecting static data, so it searches a text string $BirthdayDay in this particular case.
instead of find with arguments, you should use:

find mode (no args)
set field People::BirthDay = "< " & $BirthdayDay
execute find (no args)