SmartCard.Available
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Whether SmartCard API is available.

| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [SmartCard](component_SmartCard.md) | [6.3](newinversion63.md) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes, on macOS and Windows | ❌ No |

MBS( "SmartCard.Available" ) ### Parameters

none

### Result

Returns 1, 0 or error.

### Description

Whether SmartCard API is available.  
Should always be available on Mac and Windows.  
Returns 1 if available or 0 if not.  
  
On a server it would read the smart card attached the to the server, not any client.  
### See also

- [SmartCard.Init](SmartCardInit.md)
- [SmartCard.Transmit](SmartCardTransmit.md)

### Blog Entries

- [Talking to a SmartCard in FileMaker Pro](https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2016-08-03/Talking_to_a_SmartCard_in_File/monkeybreadsoftware_blog_filemaker)

This function checks for a license.

Created 13th June 2016 , last changed 19th June 2016

  
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