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(spoiler alert…they should) Recently, you may have heard a lot of discussion about “HTML5″. I believe HTML5 is a game changer. It can revolutionize the way we design our FileMaker databases. I have spent many years in the FileMaker market. I believe this combination of technologies is going to lead to some of the most dynamic FileMaker Layouts that possibly we’ve ever seen. This is the inception of some very exciting and compelling things are moving forward in the FileMaker world. HTML5 has been deeply etched into the fabric of the industry as “the technology that makes rich web applications”. For my money, I am fine with it. As long as we all understand that wha…
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Hi, I'm using web viewer to display some formatted text from field and I'm unable to find out how to get same formatting in iwp. In filemaker everything looks correct but in iwp there isn't any word wrapping. I was thinking I'll replace CR with <br> tag but I need functionality in filemaker and in iwp. I've tried safari, chrome, firefox, IE all behave same. Any idea? Thank you AD
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I want to have a webview that uses either mapquest or google maps that shows the mileage between two locations, based on "To" & "From" fields in Filemaker. I'm having trouble figuring out how the syntax works. I do have on another layout with a webviewer that interacts with a website and information is fed to & from filemaker so I know it's possible. To sum it up, I want mapquest via filemaker to take the city, state from & to and feed me back the mileage. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, Caroline
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Hey All, So I thought I found a great solution but unfortunately it's not working in IWP and thought maybe some of you would have ideas. Most of our clients access our database through IWP. It would be nice if there was a way for them to store documents related to project records. Using the client I can setup a web viewer to look for a particular folder in dropbox. After an initial login to dropbox, the web viewer will show the project folder according to a formatted project-id as you scroll through the records. I thought excellent! But alas nothing is loading in the webviewer when accessed through IWP. Any thoughts or methods? Thanks in advance. Jon
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Hi, I imported an Image from my server into webviewer via this.: "data:text/html, <html> <head><img src='" & "http://www.LisaPrice.info/fahrtenbuch/images/" & Buggy Fahrtenbuch::fileversion & "/eingabelocked2.jpg" & "' style='width:100%; height:100%;' /></head> <body style='border: 0; margin: 0'> </body> </html>" The Result is an image without any borders. Works perfect. When I import the image as an html, I keep getting a wireframe, and it seems this wireframe is generated by webviewer. Can anybody help me. My html file behind the Url: "http://www.LisaPrice.info/fahrtenbuch/images/" & B…
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I have built a web scraper that does a great job of pulling information out of a standard HTML page for me, looking to see which of my competitors was involved in building the actual website (in the schools industry). I would like to be able to use a scraper to look at a school's URL to find out what their tuition was. The problem is that there is no standard convention to tell the scraper to go find. Some schools might use school.com/admission/tuition and some may use school.com/admissions/finance or some may use something completely different to find the information. Does anyone have any creative way to use the web scraping concept to try and locate this data to …
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I need a script to 'HTML' post some data to an api web-site. I have no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
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I was wondering if it is possible to use local html data (i.e. "data:text/html," & $OtherStuff) to access PHP functions? My little tests haven't gone well so far. Here is what I have tried: Table "PHP_test"; 1 text field: html_code Layout: 1 edit box for PHP_test::html_code, one web viewer The web viewer has the 'web address' defined to be "PHP_test::html_code". I populate the field on the layout, it shows on the web viewer (or at least that is the idea). I am exploring the possibility of using some PHP functions to achieve results on FM data in the database. My first test was simple: <html><head><title>PHP Test</title><…
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Can't seem to find this out -- If I am viewing a web page in webviewer (in Filemaker) is there any way to get that exact URL from the webviewer and open it in an external browser (i.e. Safari, Chrome)? I know the starting page already, but the user may have navigated away from that page when they want to open the external browser. I have searched this site for an answer and also other FM resources on the web. Maybe I am using the wrong search terms? Seems like a straightforward thing -- I am viewing a page in Filemaker and I need to open that page in a stand alone browser. Click a button and voila! (?) Any help is appreciated. Thanks! -Rob
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i trying to open this Url: http://www.smstrend.net/Trend/[email protected]&password=XXXX&message_type=GP&recipient=%2B393356292016&message=test &sender=franco i get an error because the red part of the url is passed to the browser as: http://www.smstrend.net/Trend/[email protected]&password=XXXX&message_type=GP&recipient=%252B393356292016&message=test &sender=franco i understood that it could be a unicode error but i don't Know how to solve it. Thanks for your help.
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Fix it///  found a piece of code that looped.. several lines// with a delay and counter// seems to work  thanks  Hi I am just trying to simply extract Date/Time as a reference to a variable... from a US Naval time site..  (suppose one site is as good as another?)  When I parse out the Pacific Time,   it still is yesterdays?   seems like browsers,  I need a refresh of some sorts?
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Hi, I am having a javascript timer running in the web viewer. At certain moments I have to clock-in the time running in the web viewer. At that clock-in moment I am creating a new record in a related table. Each time when I create a new record in the related table the web viewer refreshes itself and the timer starts all over again from the beginning. Is there a way to keep/stop the web viewer (from) refreshing/reloading. Thanks DikkeHenk Rotterdam Holland
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I'm using the web viewer to scrape data from a website on a daily basis. The script loops through my records and loads the web page. I use a loop script like the below to make sure the page has loaded before scraping data. Loop Pause/Resume Script [ Duration (seconds): 1 ] Set Variable [ $html; Value:GetLayoutObjectAttribute("source";"content") ] Exit Loop If [ PatternCount($html; "<head>") ] End Loop The problem is that occasionally the web viewer returns a "the request timed out" error in the status bar and this causes the script to just loop infinitely and not complete. If I come across this error and manually load the page again it continues with …
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I want to incorporate the ability to draw in to my system. I was thinking a flash document accessible via the web view should do the trick. However, I'm thinking there could be an issue with the flash document talking with filemaker - knowing which record is currently being accessed, etc. Is this possible?
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I currently have a web viewer that is displaying user avatar images in an iChat-like display window. I am currently referencing the avatar images from our company's webserver. <img src = "http://mydomain.com/FM_ICHAT_IMAGES/avatar01.jpg" /> I would rather pull the images directly from a remote container field that are being stored on a FM12A server. Is this possible?
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Hi, I have a relational database in which surveys are carried out and recorded in a survey table (parent table) and all manta rays sighted (they each have unique patterns) on the survey are recorded (child table). surveys < manta ray sighted The GPS location of each manta ray is recorded as a Latitude and Longitude coordinate (2 variables) in the child table. So first I would like to link a Google Map web viewer to show the location of that individual on a map. Google Earth would be preferable if that's even possible, but Google Maps will suffice. I have another parent table (catalog table) to the manta ray table that has one record for each unique …
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Hi! I have a web viewer which loads an HTML file that is located in the same folder as the calling program, the testing put the full path in the web browser "filewin://D:/Dropbox/Receipt/Graphics/gifs/file.html" and I run it on my laptop and no problem, load the file, but now that I opened the file in my office from the same DropBox folder, but on another computer the address changes in the drive letter that is now the address is: "filewin://F:/Dropbox/ Receipt/Graphics/gifs/file.html" as they see the path just change the letter, now I read somewhere that to avoid problems in recall just enough to put files on the same folder where the file FM and did not need to refere…
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I want to display a moving gif file in my presentation of FM12, to do this I embed the gif file in Web Viewer, but in the presentation appears the browser scroll bar on one side, how I can remove this bar of your browser? FileMaker Pro Advanced 12 Windows 7 Héctor Cornejo Cravioto Think different ... and live better
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In my FM 12 ADv app I have a button that opens a window that has the Web Viewer in it. In WV there is a simple https: URL. I do my development on my Mac. When I run the script that opens the Window and URL on the Mac everything is fast and as it should be. When I copy the same app to my Windows 7 PC it takes f o r e v e r ......................45+ seconds .................... to load. I turn on the progress bar and can see it slooooooooooooowly creep across the bottom. In both apps I am using FireFox... If I change the URL to http://www.filemaker.com it runs as expected. Is it the httpS that is the problem? If so, how do I work around this 'featu…
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I new to this web scraping. This is my first time. I have looked at many examples and I can not see what is wrong. I always get a failure. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong. It does not seem to matter what web page I scrape of what tag I am looking for. If I go to "Chrome" I can see the source all ok. I am suspecting it is something external from the code .... Set Web Viewer [ Object Name: "source"; URL: "http://www.filemaker.com" ] # Loop Pause/Resume Script [ Duration (seconds): 1 ] Set Variable [ $html; Value:GetLayoutObjectAttribute("source";"content") ] Set Variable [ $elapsed; Value:Get(CurrentTimeStamp) - $start ] Exit Loop If [ Patt…
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I have an employee logging in via web publishing to do some scheduling. I have inserted a web Viewer with our gmail account as the URL.... but nothing at all shows up. Other websites work, but gmail, google search or it seems anything to do with google doesn't show - just a grey web portal. Any ideas? Thanks so much and have a great day
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I've set webviewer up to display pages that require an SVG viewer to display images within the web pages. The images are blank within webviewer but display perfectly in Internet Explorer. Is there anything that can be done or do I have to abandon this idea? Thanks in advance.
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At http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/ there is a search form that can be filled in and results display automatically... Is there any way I can get filemaker to open my default web browser and fill in that field from a form?
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I have fields for my Address, eg Address Line 1, Address Line 2, City, Post Code, Country I want to embed a map of this location into a layout. I have tried using the Google Maps feature under the Web Viewer, but it only takes to the Google Map site, and there is only a very small section of the map you can see. I do not need the search bar and such on the left of the site, just solely the map. I've done some research and tried to find a solution but can't really get it to work... Cheers.
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I have web viewer showing related info to the current record. Can I create a hyper link to: 1. a related record. 2. trigger a script.
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Hi Guys, I'm using the web viewer to show google maps but i want to hide the status bar and the direction panel so as to have a much better big map displayed. the web address is: "http://local.google.com/maps?" & "q=" & /*Address=*/ Overtime::g_GpsCoordinates can some help on this issue?? Thanks.....
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Does anyone know if Filemaker has a feature that will allow a news feed? Our company is using it for scheduling and managing workers on the field. We want to be able to see any recent activity on our end when they make a sale, add a contact, or finish a job.
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I have Instant Web Publishing turned on and when I view my layout in a browser, the web viewer field is not showing anything. I see the box, but there is nothing in it. I am currently on my Mac and trying to view it in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Thanks, Steve
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I have the PC, in which web-crawling script is running 24 hours straight. As time goes by, it seems the PC is getting slower and slower. I'm guessing that it's mainly because of the cache that web viewer makes. If anyone knows how to manage this kind of batch transaction, what would be the best way? any solution? As a consequence, I found out it's better to shut down FileMaker application and launch again and again repeatedly. It seems the most stable. Thanks!!
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Hi, Is there any possibility to show my print preview content into webviewer display?. The content should be dynamic based on print preview content. Kindly reply. Best Regards, Aarjun Muthu, Founder and Filemaker Developer, Lives Micropoint, Skype:lives_aarjun
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Could someone tell me how to script getting the cursor into the first available field on a web page form once it has loaded. I tried using a Quickeys script I prepared but I don't seem to be able to trigger it using Applescript. Applescript seems an obvious choice, but I am not very savvy with it. I just want to get into the first field here http://tel.local.ch/en/. I am sure there would be a way of calculating the URL to include the first name et family name from my db as well, but I am not very savvy with html either. Any help would be appreciated.
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Desired outcome: The web site of interest appears to be built in WordPress, but in any case, there is a colored background, and then a framed area of content, containing stylized text, graphics, and a smallish photo. We're using a layout with a Web Viewer. Loop through a series of the site. At each iteration, it would be useful to know when the web page is fully drawn before going to the next loop iteration, but for the purpose of this exercise, a pause of several seconds can be used. Create a new record, and set the Web Viewer to a base url plus a calculation. Either "Save Records as PDF" or "Print (to PDF)" (or some other method, using native FileMak…
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Hi there, Filemaker 11.0.4... When I browse to a layout with a webviewer on it, it gives an ugly flash of white. Does anyone know how to supress this flashing? May be a silly question - as it's a dynamic layout object and it is simply refreshing itelf, but it's a question wrth asking... Pax et Lux Glorifindal
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I've tried looking for this online but I haven't had any luck so this is my situation: I have a table with products that have already been published online, Example of the table: Part number = 123ABC ID = 123abc Publish Status = Yes or No I have another table with different products and notes, sometimes in these notes there are part numbers which have already been published, so my job is to detect the part numbers that have been published and make them link (for example: this is a 123ABC example = this is a <a href="http://www.mysite.com/123ABC.html">123ABC</a> example) So far I have processed every line successfully and created the lin…
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Hello, i want to start a script after the webviewer has finished loading, because i have to read out some summarys from the Webviewer. Is there any way to trigger a script after loading completed? Thank you!
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Hi, I have a database with over 2000 addresses globally and want Google Maps in Filemaker to display a marker for each address in the found set. If you are able to do this, I want to hear from you. Tell me your price for this job. Thank you, ML Disclaimer: FM Forums does not endorse or warrantee these positions please contact the poster for further information regarding the position particulars.
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Hello Gang, I am perplexed and bummed. I am revamping my product and was going to use a web viewer to display content, but am now having second thoughts now. Please view my quicktime movie, so you can witness the odd behavior: http://www.dwdatacon...s.com/error.mov If you have any comments or feedback, I would sure appreciate it. Thanks! Don PS - I tried to attach the video to this post but got an PHP Error ;-(
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We have given the object name for webviwer for get some value from webviwer object with the below calculation function working well in desktop application, that means we are getting some value from the url (which we have done in the php script.) via webviwer. GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( objectName ; attributeName {; repetitionNumber ; portalRowNumber} ) but the same case not working properly When we go for Ipad. Could anyone please share your comments if you met the problem before.. Note: This issue found only on fm 12 advanced.. bcoz we already done this same in fm 11 advanced
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Hi, is there a possibility to draw something and then to store the image in the database? The same way like GoDraw 1.0 for FM Go. And could someone explain me why GoDraw works in FM Go but not in FM Pro Thx ChiSao
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i made 2 files.html and jquery i want to use it in my database so that it can work on any computer can any one help me how to do it
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Dear Programmers, I want to display files for each record separately on the layout which are related to them. I have added a container, browse button to upload and a web viewer on the layout. Browse button will browse for file and put it into container field then will export the contents to a folder which is associated with that record number. All the files are saved to-> \\server\attachments\{record-number} i.e. Record 1234's files will be in this folder -> \\server\attachments\1234 I am doing it this way: Send Event [ open document/application; "cmd /c \\server && cd\Attachment && md" & Table::RecordNumber ] I…
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I am sending a calculated URL to a Web Viewer. The web service (MailChimp) I am sending to returns a JSON file. This displays fine on a Mac in the Web Viewer and I am able to parse the content out and back into FileMaker, completing the loop. On Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8 beta) I get a dialog box popup when the JSON file comes back that says "Do you want to Save this file or find a program online to open it?" Type: Unknown File Type. The file I am working is a demo file for a lengthy (3-part) blog entry on integrating FileMaker Pro with MailChimp. Download Demo File here A Google search suggests that what is happening is that Internet Explorer (IE) d…
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I want to display a javascript wysiwyg editor in a web viewer to allow users to design html emails. TinyMCE was the most promising, but the "Insert/Edit Link" option does not work. It works fine in Safari, which is what I had understood that the web viewer was using... so that's odd. I also tried CKEditor (formerly FCKEditor), but nothing works (all actions are performed on the top of the document, regardless of where the cursor/selection is). Again, it works fine in Safari. I looked at a number of others from this list: http://www.webdesignbooth.com/15-really-useful-web-based-html-editors/ but most of the others are either too limited (no support for table…
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Trying to draw expansion/reduction left/down black triangles that will work in native filemaker solutions for Mac and Windows. I don't think there is a character/font that works in both with these. Don't want to use a graphic, as often background shade does seem to match between platforms (good on one, mismatched on another), and images are slower over the Server wire. So my next solution was to do it using a small Web Viewer using a html/data approach, and the HTML character code. This works, except that the redraw seems so slow enough (even for this one character box) that I get a noticeable white flash on layout change as the background color of the web …
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Hello, I am trying to post ad to Craigslist in filemaker by using web viewer control. Firstly, It should login Craigslist with an account and password that will be in filemaker database. And then, the category, ad title, location, price, content etc should be filled with the data from filemaker database. Is there any way to do this? Thanks. Arnold
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Hi there, Just created a web viewer that shows the contents of a pdf, but I wanted to be able to link to a bookmark that is in the PDF. I have tried the PDF Open Paramaters as documented here: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf Yet this doesn't work. Example: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf#page=10 doesn't go to that page Does anyone have any input on going to a bookmark or page using PDF Open parameters or other ways to do it in FileMaker? Kind regards Noonshade
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I would like to use the web viewer for my solution but the problem is the size of the window of the browser. Any way to send a message to the browser to makes its window a certain size? Thanks
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Hello all. I have a tricky problem with authentication using the web viewer in FMPro 11 and OS X Lion. I have a solution which uses the web viewer to view password authenticated pages from one of our web servers. Many moons ago, I saved the password for these intranet pages which meant I didn't have to enter the password each time I visited a new record, nor even after closing the file and reopening. However, recently my Keychain developed some corruption so I had to delete it and start again. Since then, the password dialogue pops up every time it tries to access the page and although Filemaker's Web Viewer will create a new Keychain login item for the password…
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Hi Everyone, I am trying to send an sms via the wb viewer and have used the following syntax. "http://www.smsglobal.com/http-api.php?action=sendsms&user=XXXXXX&password=********&from=61433414174&to=" & Text Messages::SentToNumberFiltered & "&text=" & Text Messages::Note User has been altered from the username to XXXX and password have been changed to **** I am getting: ERROR: Missing parameter: to If anyone has any ideas I would be extremely grateful. Milton.
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Sorry, I meant through not though, of course! I'd like to get Filemaker to sign in to web pages for me via a script, and then display the resulting web page in the viewer. For example, I'd like to automatically log in to my gmail. Is this possible? It seems to require passing a POST command, and I've looked at several utilities to do that (Scriptmaster, FMNexWeb, the Troi PostUrl plug in). They all seem to offer what I need, but I can't figure any of them out. Too thick I guess! Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Dear All, I am working on SuperContainer. I just want to retrieve the file name of the SuperContainer file in field of my database. Please response me as soon as possible. Thanks in advance...
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Hello World, I am using a web viewer to display/preview some text from a data field before printing and I've run into an interesting situation and could use some guidance. I have created some fields to process raw data and create some HTML/CSS for a webviewer which works great. The only thing is the text formatting does not follow through to the web viewer as it does not generate any HTML formatting tags. I was wondering if there is anyway to check the existing formatting on individual words (ie if Bold, italics, underline, etc)? This way I could run a CF or calculation to sub in HTML tags where needed. Thanks In Advance, Chris
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We are rendering PDF files into a web viewer, and the images do not print out if you print the layout directly. It is possible to print the PDF image if the web viewer has focus and the user presses ctrl-p or uses a right mouse click to select print, but to complete the print, the user has to click the OK button in the resulting print dialog box. We need to be able to generate a 'silent' print request from a Filemaker script, so that the user does not have to handle the dialog box. We've been able to achieve this using Javascript, but this involves the use of a plug-in to pass the javascript request to the web viewer. We'd like to avoid the cost of managing and …
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Hello, I have been experimenting with the FileMaker web viewer object to test for HTML5 behavior when running Firefox as the default web browser. But so far it consistently acts like an Internet Explorer web browser. Is the FileMaker web viewer object linked to the default web browser in the OS? I am trying this using Windows XP with Firefox and FileMaker Pro 11 (latest version). This works on Mac OS X, but that is primarily because of Safari. Has anyone had any success with HTML5 tags when using the FileMaker web viewer? Thanks for any feedback. -Charlie M.
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Is it possible to call a FileMaker script from a web viewer? This would be a controlled HTML file, either local or hosted. A button in the HTML file would need to call a script and possibly pass a parameter or two.
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I have a web viewer window which uses custom web address to open a PDF file located on one of our network drives. Each record in the file holds the filepath to the PDF file, so as you move from record to record, the webviewer displays the PDF. We are using IE8 and have the Acrobat Plug-in installed so the PDFs render in the web viewer. This works fine until you start browsing through a large number of records, when you suddenly get the message from Acrobat that the Maximum number of files are open and you will have to close some files before you can view or print any more. At this point the web viewer goes blank and ceases to respond - although you can continue to us…
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I want the Web Viewer without any borders, but it keeps showing the 'embossed' look... All related settings are turned off (eg. Border Effect, line thickness to None, etc.) This is getting annoying, anyone with a tip? At the moment I'm on Windows 7 with FM Advanced. *** Second post... Think it's a Windows bug... just tried it on the Mac and it works just fine. On the PC, in Layout mode no borders are visible, exactly what I want. But in Browse mode the embossed effect is added. This gotta be a bug... *** Third post... Even with "Drop Shadow" effect selected, the emboss effect is present...
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This is a nice little demo that I created for the FMWebschool newsletter. It demonstrates how to incorporate PayPal into your FileMaker solutions. Customers have to pay - to unlock the solution. I hope you enjoy! http://www.fmwebschool.com/movies/paypalmovie/paypalmovie.html I look forward to any comments / suggestions. In Kindness Stephen Knight
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Hi. We want to pre-load web pages in the FM Web Viewer so that our editors can flip from one to the next without waiting for each page to load. Just like when you use your browser to open several URLs in different tabs all in one go. We have one record per web viewer and hence web page. We find the set of records We go to a layout with the Web Viewer on it We run through the records using the next record step, and pause briefly on each one. We go back to the first record. This works for small numbers of records - eg 12. When the user clicks through to the next record, the web page is already there. This does NOT work for large numbers of records,…
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Hi All Have been playing with the web viewer and have visitied the fm website and it seems you can do something called web scraping. I bring up a page in the web viewer and in another field am able to retreive the source code for the web page being diplayed using the GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "web object name" ; "content" ) Here is a small sample above of the html I now need to extract the profession of the doctor.. I can get the starting position of the profession using the position function but now nedd to extract everything that falls between the and the after the position of the profession. Any thoughts?? Really need some help …
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I can put in a file path (in web viewer) such as file://C:/Documents and Settings/userName/Desktop/ ... and view the contents of a folder. And I use this ability to keep external documents attached to records where I can double-click them within the record to open them (by storing only the folder path). But can I take that display (which lists all files within the directory) and turn it into text that I can parse per line? I can do it now using old method of DOS dir and then redirect it. And I can do it via vbs. And I can parse out the files. Can I do it via web viewer? Thanks for any help folks!
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Dear All, I have three columns in my portal. I am passing some web address in one of the column of the portal, and in every row the the web address is different. For example, in first row I want to open google.com, in second one Rediff.com and in third one yahoo.com. here I am using set web viewer script and I have assigned 'web' as name of the web viewer. Please help in achieving this task. Thanks in advance.
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Anyone know of a way that I can display a number of related records in an html <table> using webviewer. I need a page displayed in a format as shown in the attached picture... I'm just trying to figure out a way to display the "Guest List" portion of the data with the Guest ID, Name, Response, Date Received fields. This data is kept in a separate table (Guest List) from the Event table. untitled.bmp
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Is there a way to know when the loading of the Web Viewer page is complete?
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Hi everybody, I load a webpage with TEXT and 3 images in the web viewer and I want to save this webpage firstly in a container field and after in my harddisk. I use GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "yourWebviewerObjectName" ; "content" ) into a script to store the content but although the webpage is correctly loaded in the WV, I only get the plain text and I don't know where are the images. I have tried several plugins with the same results. I have tried to find the temporary path or the cache of the web viewer to save the three images in other container fields but it is impossible. Could anybody help me to solve it? where is the cache or temporary path? I checked t…
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I have two web viewers, showing custom code generated based on field objects. Each was working perfectly yesterday. Today, for no reason I can discover, they are both exceeding the bottom border of their bounding boxes (in the picture, they bottom edges are in the blue bar but should stop within the white box above that). I've tried changing their size (both bigger and smaller) with no change in symptoms. Creating a new web viewer with the same calculation as the content Did fix the problem, though. Any ideas on how I can avoid this in the future? I can't find anything about it on the web (though I may not have used the necessary terminology correct…
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Hi All. I am creating an application that will go to various websites, but I need to go through proxies(Which will be loaded into the file). Is there any plugin that can accomplish this with Filemaker? I can manually change the browser settings and that should do the trick but it would be nice to have something already built in via a plugin to accomplish this(Less time consuming). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Is there a way to view Container images? All I see after importing them is the filename. Thank you, Fed
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Hi folks! Been a long time since I've setup or even used FM. Its been about 15+ years. Trying to set up a data base for myself of my customers. I'm in the graphic business. I need a way to store the graphic (JPG) in the records. Looking for a way to do it so all I have to do is drag and drop from a folder to the FM record. The size of the JPGs are only about 300x300. Any words of wisdom would be mighty appreciated!!! Thanks! PS, FM 11, on a vista OS
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Hello, I'm trying to embed Google maps into a filemaker solution using the web viewer. This should be relatively straightforward with Google's API V3, but the web viewer is not rendering the map. For now, I'm only trying to get the web viewer to show one of the example maps from the Google maps API website, so I know this is not an issue with a calculation field incorrectly rendering the code. The web address for my web viewer is: "data:text/html," & Localities::Google_map_test where Google_map_test is the field containing the relevant HTML/javascript code. The contents of Google_map_test are: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head>…
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I have a database that stores html code that gets uploaded to our website catalog. We also use this database to generate internal documents, so I am trying to use the web viewer to display the html code as regular text on some of our layouts. We also use a lot of Greek Unicode symbols in our text which has presented us a lot of cross-platform issues in the past with FileMaker. For example, if you insert a unicode alpha (α) into a field on a Mac, the PC would show it as a block or empty character. This is why I am trying to use the web viewer approach instead. Having the same problems with the web viewer; if I place the html code with Greek unicode into a filemak…
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Used instant web publishing to allow some folks on the LAN to add data to the dbase. However, I can't figure out how to add an image to my container field us the Web Viewer. All computers are Mac running OS 10.5 or later. Browsers range from Safari to Firefox to Chrome.
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Is there anyway to get web viewer to correctly display "http://username%40company.com:[email protected]" in the web view? The web viewer wants to turn it the %40 into %2540.
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I want to get a certain block of text from a website. for instance on this website: http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/007600.html i would like to extract this part of the text: Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of: 15 ft Rope Climb, 1 ascent Run 400 meters Max rep Handstand push-up Every day the WOD (workout of the day) changes and i would like to navigate to the page with the WOD I plan to use and set up a button to click to quickly copy and paste the WOD to the WOD field . So far my understanding is that I will need to create a seperate field and copy the html to it via GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "ViewerObjectName" …
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The example is inspired by The Bridge it gives a couple of examples that maybe useful with Web Viewer: 1. Resize an image 2. Refresh Content 3. Embed a flash rollover button You need 8.5 to use this The attachments named MacAndPC should work on PC although i only have a Mac so can't test it. best wishes, Stuart WebViewer_Example.fp7.zip WebViewer_MacAndPC.fp7.zip
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I am currently using Filemaker 9 to do this. I have been reading through many FFM forums and I am still a little stuck on my end. Basically I am building an export button to export pictures (targeted link from another field) out of my web preview. When it exports it saves as the "filename".jpeg in the targeted folder I want but I cannot view the picture because it is actually a text file. 1) Is this possible? 2) If no, is a targeted container workable? Note: I've tried this but the container doesn't fill the box with the proper image but gives me a icon of the picture instead and bombs out everytime. I understand containers has to have something in the container …
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Fairly new to the understanding the web viewer. I have a website field on my customers layout, where a user can enter the website address. There is a button that launches the web viewer on another tab so that one can look at the customer's website. I just found out that Filemaker needs the "http://" to be part of the address for it to work on a mac, so I created a check to see if it is there, and if it is not it adds it, but why do I still get "http://localhost/" when trying to load it?
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Ever put a web viewer on a layout and had users complain when they scroll thru the records. Does it bog down your system with lots of unneeded requests for web pages that you don't need (at least at that moment) Well, I have. This is the solution I came up with and I thought I would share. (It's only fair, It is peiced together from stuff I learned right here on FM_Forums.) The solution Uses a Logical function in a web viewer to either display, or not display the web page and show Custom Messages in the web viewer saying why it isn't displayed. (sample uses USPS.com to standardize addresses using an address, city, and st, included is a script that will update/enter…
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We have PDF files located in Filemaker_Server_11\Data\Documents\WorkOrders. I need for outside and remote Users to view, open, print these files. If I physically upload the file to a SuperContainer Web Viewer all of that can be accomplished. Is there a way I can move, import, insert etc this file into the superContainer Web Viewer via a script? thanks, Jim
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I'm a subscriber to FilemakerMagazine.com and am using a web viewer to browse articles and pull titles and summaries to build an index of those I want to save. This all works well. There are usually links to download both a technique file and a movie file, and I can activate the links through the web viewer. When so doing, however, the movie files download and open OK, but not so the technique zip files. They download, but I get this error when trying to open them: "Cannot open file: It does not appear to be a valid archive." Downloading the same file from my Firefox browser gives a slightly larger file size, and the zip file opens properly. I have the web viewer set to i…
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Hi, After doing alot of research and testing I discovered that you can view a pdf in a web viewer, taking as the source a pdf stored in a container field. The way to do this is by exporting the pdf in the container field to a temporary location using the function Get(TemporaryPath), and then pointing the web viewer to that location. I have tested this by adding a file to a folder in my desktop and pointing the web viewer to this location and file. This works perfectly and you can view the pdf in the web viewer. The the problem that I am having is that I have not been able to export this file from the container to that temporary folder which points to in th…
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We have a Filemaker database. It's basically a registration database for kids sports. Some people send in their registrations and that is entered manually in the filemaker database. Works great. Recently the website was changed so people could sign up their children via the web & pay through paypal, All the same information is entered that is entered in the filemaker database. The website is not a Filemaker web server, I was going to write a script that would periodically update the database records from the web by importing them. What is the best way to go about getting the info from the website? Does the website person design a script to export and I design an…
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The client is all PC based. Their FM File is hosted at FMGateway. We need a web viewer so PDFs can be viewed. Client has PDF files on a local server. FMGateway stated: "The PDF files need to be uploaded through FTP to the users account. You can then access it through a special subdomain (not 31.fmgateway.com, that's just the FileMaker Server). Once the files are uploaded through FTP into the "httpdocs" directory, it should be very easy to calculate a URL to them." Then they stated: "They can upload their pdf files to the httpdocs directory of their FTP account. They can then use their domain or subdomain with any subdirectory and file name to view the file."…
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Hi, I'm trying to load a local HTML on the webviewer with no success. What am I missing?
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We want to write and edit simple HTML in a Filemaker field, which is later exported to our web site. This includes things like adding bold to text and inserting live email addresses. I see no WYSIWYG way of doing this. So... Has anyone developed a mini-HTML editor that allows this to be done easily, as it would in a wiki (or indeed when posting messages here)? What's the easiest way of rendering the field so that users can see the results of their work? What's the best way of handling the fact that Filemaker's returns in text fields don't automatically turn into the tags required by web pages? Many thanks in advance.
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I have created my Filemaker 11 database. My problem is with the web viewer. I have links on my database that goes to the web viewer page which should bring up a web page from another site, this works fine on the database on my computer, but nothing appears on this page when I access from the internet. Is there anyone who could help solve this problem, thanks.
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I wanted to run this internally and create a web viewer that stays on the back ground of the layout letting become a more versatile conditional formatter. Using location function for fields as makers and translating to html.
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I am using FM 10 in windows XP. The web viewer object in my layout is smaller then most web pages, so there are usually scroll bars to scroll left and down. I have a script which feeds URLs that are stored in a FM database to the web viewer. When "standard" web pages are shown (ie: "www.anypage.com'), everything works fine. The problem is when the URL references an online database. Example: http://anypage.com/team.php?ID=176905 Sometimes this page displays correctly in the web viewer, and sometimes it has scrolled down and left by about 40 pixels or so on both axis, so that the top and left sides of the page are not visible. The user could use scroll…
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We recently install a new windows 7 machine. We use the web viewer in FM10 to pull phone number and address information from a phone book website. It works fine on the XP machines but will not display on the Windows 7 machine. The script is designed to open a new window and then go to a layout where the web viewer is set up. The script will open the new window but will not transition to the layout containing the web viewer. We also have a url script that opens our website and uploads information into a form. Works with XP but not Windows 7. I'm hoping there is some security setting with 7 for accessing the web via a program that can be changed to correct the problem. If s…
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I am using FM 10 on a windows system. I am having an issue with dealing with "real" web page code in a web viewer after the user clicks on a link. This is the process 1) User presses scripted button to load web page from www.somesite.com/page1.htm into viewer 2) Layout changes and script processes web page and reloads it into same viewer using only local variables 3) User clicks on a link that is contained within the processed (from step 2) web page. 4) Web page loads into viewer from www.somesite.com/page2.html 5) User clicks different FM scripted button to process page (same script as step 2) 6) The variable that contains GetLayoutObjectAttribute("vi…
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I have searched exhaustively to find the answer and now feel it must be so simple I just can't see it. Simply have a web viewer on a layout. Want to print the page. On Macs right clicking shows no printing option. Right clicking in Windows Vista it shows perfectly and prints perfectly. Can I not print a web viewer page on the Mac in Filemaker Pro 9, 10 or 11? If it is possible through a plug in or scripting then would appreciate someone giving some info. What am I missing here? Very frustrated that there is so little information on the web to address this. Thanks
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Hello, I would like to see the image in a web viewer defined as SVG format. for example " Des rectangles de toutes les couleurs stroke:slategray; stroke-width:2px;""/> " This code works in FM10A but not in FM11A. Is there something changed in the web viewer of FM11A ? my system is windows seven 64-bit
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It appears when using the combination of Filemaker 11 and Internet Explorer 8 that web viewers automatically display all web pages in "compatibility view". This has become an issue with the particular web pages I'm trying to display as it causes errors on the page. I have tried changing settings from within IE8 itself but with no luck. Has anyone run into this issue and found a solution?
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I'm trying to scrape a web page and clean it up. I've subbed out spaces, tabs, pilcrows, and something that showed up in a text editor as a diamond. But I'm still getting a couple hundred line breaks. What character am I missing? I take the page source, apply this code Let([ source = GetLayoutObjectAttribute("viewer"; "content"); clean=Substitute(source; [" "; ""]; ["¶";""]; [" ";""];[" ";""]) ]; clean) and before I get to the initial text of -//W3C, I get this: " " and so on for a 209 ValueCount(). It's driving me nuts!
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Hi. For a couple of years now I have been sponging off people in this forum to further my FM skills. I would like to contrbiute back to the group with a little something I wrote that I found useful on the front of my app. Naturally what you see here is cut down, but the structure is there so you can integrate into your own stuff. I hope you like the novelty factor as much as I do and hope you find it useful too. Love to hear your feedback too. I'm also working on an "On This Day" thing where important days and dates - birthdays, deaths, historical importance, quote of the day as well. I like to think that apps can have a light and easy side to it too. Will …
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Hello, I want to import a CSV file downloaded by a Web Viewer in a script. How can I determinate the file path and the file name? This will be a multi-user solution with Mac clients.
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I want my script to select the contents of the web object & copy and paste the contents in a field. then I have a calculation based on I have the script go to the object, but will not select all. Seems like it should be simple. What am I missing? Thanks, Caroline
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Can you stop the web viewer from loading a new screen every time you switch a record. I have database on employee training and I have to interact with a website that oversees our training progress and what not. Every time I switch records the web viewer reloads and I have to log in again. So can the web viewer interact as a stand alone web viewer or will it always refresh with new records being loaded? Thanks in advance...
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Hello , I am working with web-viewer and i have to show all location markers from source location to destination location using Google maps. for example-if i have to show all the major cities between new york to Washington on Google maps it just showing me at A as a source and B as a Destination but i want to indicate all major cities between both of them.
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Hello, I've been trying to figure out a way for the web viewer to "auto click" on the first link which comes up using google or wikipedia. I have a database of dvd movies and I want the web viewer to display the wikipedia page for the movie in question. My search query contains the title, the release year, and the word "film". Using wikipedia as the search engine it goes directly to the page about 30% of the time. The rest of the time it shows a list of articles. -- The article I want displayed is always the first one listed. Is there a web viewer function to automatically click the top link on the returned list? I find that if I do the search on …
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