Web Viewer

We have a table we call Carriers (basically vendors we use). We used to enter info about their insurance info etc manually into filemaker. Now we can look up the information we need on our carriers via the web. Basically we type in something called the MC# and it tells us if the carrier has everything up to date. I put the web viewer on the layout, used the custom address: http://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/pkg_carrquery.prc_carrlist Now I want the MC# that's in my database to be transferred into the the field on the website. That way as we go from record to record we can see if the carriers have their info up to date. Is this possible? Perhaps with a …

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to get pdfs held on an external hard drive to show up in a web viewer. At present I have references held in container fields to the pdfs, and I have found a solution to showing the pdfs if they are held on my own computer, but it says: "The requested URL is not found on this server" when they are on the external drive. I'm a newcomer to this, and have found references here and there to this being a problem, but have not understood whether this is a filepath problem or something far greater. Ideally I'd love to find a solution that would enable people viewing the database on iwp to review the …

I am looking for an easy way to copy data from a web viewer. If I right click on the WV and choose [select All], Then a soft right click and choose [Copy] I can then paste it and parse out the content I want to use. I need a way to automate this because there are a thousand records. I tried GetLayoutObjectAttribut( "webviewer" ; "source" ) this only grabs the website address , which I already know , it's in the web viewer. I also tried GetLayoutObjectAttribut( "webviewer" ; "content" ) Which returns html. Which makes parsing a real P.I.A. Anyone got any ideas on hoe to automate this?

I'm using the web viewer to 'get' xml data. I can't use the Import script step since FM does not negotiate a secure connection when doing xml imports. So what I need to do is something like 'getastext(). Can that be done? How?

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From a script, is there a way to test to see if the Web Viewer has finished loading? I know I can simply build in a pause to the script but I was hoping for something more precise. Thanks.

Hi all I have used a technique that Mr.Vodka documents to capture mouse button presses outside of field boxes. I have used an empty web viewer to do this. The idea is to stop filemaker from auto-saving the field contents that have been modified. All works well to an extent. I have anchored the web viewer so that it auto resizes when the window is resized. The problem I am having is that when a click is performed at the bottom of the screen when the window has been resized vertically larger than its default setting, the click is not captured by the web viewer and field contents are auto-saved. However this is not the case horizontally?? I have checked that …

I have a PDF being displayed in a web viewer. I would like to download that pdf to a specific location via script. This is on a mac and plugins are an option. History and caveats: This file is generated by a servlet. The servlet tracks the session of the web viewer and prevents opening the URL from anywhere but the webviewer. I cannot send the URL to Safari, use CURL (if that's even possible normally), scriptmaster's get URL, etc. because they all make their requests outside the webviewer and so the servlet refuses the request. I can, using the acrobat plugin, download the file manually using the save to disk, but the point is to automate this. I can also change …

I have 6 web viewers on one layout Each has an object name numbered 1 through 6 The script uploads images from a folder on the local machine to a web server. When the upload finishes I use the following script step: Set Web Viewer [Object Name: $$image; Action: Reload] The $$image variable has the number which corresponds to the object name of the viewer that I want to refresh. The problem is that it does not refresh. Any ideas???

Afternoon all, In one of my tables i'm storing the URI of images located on my Flickr account. What i would like is to be able to show a thumbnail of the image once the URI has been entered. Flickr offers a square format of 75px x 75px which can be accessed by appending _s to the raw filename before the .jpg suffix. However, when i create a web portal of 75 x 75 with that address, I'm getting a white space appear at the bottom of the box and the top of the image is cut off. Is there a way to remove the white space or a better way to get this funcionality? Thanks!

Through the web viewer, I am accessing a specific site (not my own) which has it's own Print button that switches layouts to a multi-page form, prints and returns to the original layout, just as you might do within FileMaker. The problem is that after the Print Dialog pops up, FileMaker retakes focus and the Print Dialog is behind the FileMaker window. Is there any way I can allow the Print Dialog to retain or even regain focus? I don't want to have to force the users to have to minimize FileMaker to finish printing and then maximize FileMaker after the printing is completed.

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I have a weird problem with a solution I am developing that has a web viewer using a DATA URL field and using OpenLayers Javascript. In some occasions I get a blank web viewer as if the the page was not fully processed but sometimes the web viewer displays the data url correctly. I am not sure if it is a cache problem or an encoding issue. Any ideas? Thank you! Otto Krauth

Hi all I'm trying to create a solution where we have multiple tracks hosted on Soundcloud and then host a database of our albums/tracks via IWP and use the web viewer to view to the soundcloud widget. Soundcloud offers an embeddable code similar to youtube videos and other hosting sites, but I'm not sure how to impliment this through IWP. it works great on the client but this site will be used by people across the country. has anyone had success using any embed codes like this with IWP?

I'm running a database where I've created a script that loops through a series of product web pages to check product availability - use the "get content" from the Web Viewer, and then parse the text to establish a base field, then set a mirror field with that information - so the next time the system navigates to that page, it can compare the two fields and trigger an alert of something has changed. All that works fine. However, with one vendor (Victoria's Secret), the amount of system memory used triples over other vendors (like Abercrombie or Hollister). I've noticed their web pages are very "java intensive" and am wondering if that could be causing the huge memor…

Hello everybody, I was thinking if I can integrate Google maps distance estimation into Filemaker. I know that I can use Web Viewer, but it's going to show me the whole page. I'm interested only in the actual distance between two zip code inputs.Do you think I can use Web Viewer to show me only a portion of google map site ? ( The idea is similar to Web Clip Dashboard on Mac OS) . Thanks

I'd like to be able to view a webpage in webviewer and manually download linked files. If I right click on a file, I get a normal dialog box where I can select "download linked file". However, nothing happens when I select it. No download. No prompt of where to save it. Is this an issue with my set up, or is it simply not possible to download files manually from webviewer? Any ideas?

Hi, I am trying to copy a .GIF image that has loaded in the Web Viewer and paste it into a container to store it for use later. It is an image that is dynamic so I need to store it separately. Have tried GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "webViewer"; "content" ), but not had any success in pasting or setting the container to the image. Has anyone any ideas, or is this not an available function....? I can right-click / control-click and copy the image, but I want to be able to script this. Many thanks, Crispin

GetLayoutObjectAttribute ("webviewer", "content") Does not work for www.pricerunner.co.uk could it be they are blocking it? Any work around?

I am trying to view a PDF in the webviewer. I think this used to work, but now I am only getting black boxes where the PDFs should be. The same url works great in Safari. Mac OSX 10.6.3, Safari 5.0, FileMaker 11 Maybe this is a Safari 5 issue? Any body else having problems? Thanks Todd

I've read many post and can't get it to parse data from all three rowset. I need the row name, characterID, corporationName, and corporationID from each rowset. How do I make it go to the next rowset so I can get the data. This is the first time I've tried to parse. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - 2010-06-15 19:37:28 - - 2010-06-15 19:39:32 Thanks for any help

Hello, I am having some trouble with the syntax in the Web Viewer. I would like to set up a custom web address for the website www.alexa.com where the search bar on Alexa.com is automatically populated with the search name from my data base. This is how the syntax of the alexa URL would look if example was the name of my search term: http://www.alexa.com/search?q=example&r=site_screener&p=big top However, I want the web viewer to populate the search name from my table called Company Names and Field called Name Can anyone provide me with the correct syntax for this. Thank you!

Is it possible to use Web Viewer to preview the contents of a container field? For our workgroup solution, I'm trying to give users the ability to preview image files and PDFs, specifically. My solution runs on Filemaker Server 11. I can't find any documentation on how to make this work running a server-based solution. If it can work, what's the method for "pointing" the web the server? Thanks in advance for any help.

I've seen some demo applications that use a webviewer to display temproal information such as a calculation of found records vs. total. How is a web viewer supposed to be stup in order to disply such data? For example, if I enter a Let function which calculates a subtraction between two fields, how can I display the result in order to avoid creating an extra field in the table?

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Could you please help and indicate why only last address is displayed on the google maps ? Sort the records according to the sort field Set variable $URL to "http://maps.google.com/maps?d&saddr=" & Substitute ( Address::Address; " "; "+") [note: saddr is the start address] Loop through remaining records... Go to next record (exit after last) Set $URL & "+to:" & Substitute ( Address::Address; " "; "+") [note: +to: denotes all additional addresses] End loop. Open URL (No Dialog), $URL

Is there a method for passing data generated (from a javascript) in a WV back into the database? I manage a chemical inventory for my research group, in which an important feature is the visualization of chemical structures. I have a situation in which the user draws a chemical structure into a javascript based plugin (e.g. ChemDraw ActiveX, ChemDoodle Web Components, etc) and then converts that structure in to the SMILES format (a 1D text representation), which I'd like to store in the database. The conversion function is part of the javascript library, and that output can be printed in the WV; however, I still can't figure out a way to pass it back to the database…

Hey everyone, I know this is a rather old topic on here and there are a few posts regarding a solution, but for the life of me, I can't get it to work. I was wondering if I could get a second (or third) opinion as to what I am doing wrong here, 1) Have a text field 2) I AM NOT able to parse the needed text from the text field using the formula provided by comment: Let ( [ start = Position ( text ; prefix ; 1 ; 1 ) + Length ( prefix ) ; end = Position ( text ; suffix ; start ; 1 ) ] ; Middle ( text ; start ; end - start ) ) This is my text string: Transaction ID: 2DB113476E10274V984321 An email blah blah blah So, this is my…

What's wrong, what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your support and help, Zagino ps. Imac os x11.4 fmp 10 adv GoogleMap.zip

Is it possible to have a web viewer auto login to a website? I've got a web viewer set up for our Google Calendar and I'd like it to automatically be logged in to our account when a person pulls it up (I've got some people here that won't take the time to log in, and then they never see what's going on, nor do they add items to the calendar.) Is there a way to do this? I'm not sure what the coding would be to include the username and password.

Hi All, I'm using a Webviewr to display a google map based on address fields, I would like to modify the web content so that it displays only the map without all the side panes and top toolbars, is that possible? Bear in mind that I still want the map to be based on my address fields. Any help will be very much appreciated! Amram Chayim Eirinberg

I have recently started using stricter control of Firefox and Safari on my mac. Unfortunately, the Filemaker webviewer no longer works on certain websites. I cannot figure out which setting changes caused this. Does Filemaker inherit security features from Firefox, Safari, or some other place. Firefox is my default browser. Thank you, Fed

Hi All, Is it possible to format a webviewr control so that only the web contents should be visible and not the borders and engrave effects? Any help will be very much appreciated! Amram Chayim Eirinberg

I have a flash player in a web viewer. I'd like to have a script that controls it. Is there any way for a script to control the mouse so that it clicks on the correct flash player control (e.g. Play button, or Next song)?

I want to use a Web Viewer to Populate a shipping page on UPS. I've done a tracking page, but this seems a little more complicated.

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I'm trying to get this UPS tracking web viewer to work. It works, excetpt it puts the field name "Jobs::Tracking Number" into the field that the actual content of the field "1ZYY64820398867660" should go into. What am I doing wrong? "http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?tracknum="&"= Jobs::Tracking Number" "Jobs::Tracking Number is my field name.

Ive been on advanced 10.3 for quite some time and have a database that does nothing more than have a list of files in a table and a webviewer for viewing those files (pdf's). Ive not made any recent changes to the system and, seemingly out of the blue, the files now open full screen in an external pdf viewer window and not inside the webviwer window.. any ideas on how i can get back to the old behavior so that the pdf's show constrained inside the webviewer??

Hi, On Snow Leopard Macs I am noticing a big change behavior between Web Viewer in 10.0v3 and 10.0v1 Within the Web Viewer I am using the following calc to define whether to load a local or a server-based php file into a Web Viewer: If( Local < 1; "http://server.myco.com/stores/store.php?clear=y"; "http://localhost/stores/store.php?clear=y" ) The server-based file displays in good order on both 10.0v1 and 10.0v3. But although the local file displays OK in 10.0v1 it shows as raw PHP in 10.0v3. Why does it show as raw PHP? The file itself displays fine in Safari. This has happened on a few Macs after upgrading from 10…

Hi I am trying to get the innerHTML of my webviewer, as the data is set by JavaScript. Is there any possibility to achieve this? I was thinking of using the following technique: Set the URL to : javascript:a=document.body.innerHTML; ... and then grab it with the GetLayoutObjectAttribute function. but I have the feeling this is not going to work

I am new to filemaker. I am wondering if it is possible to have some sort of lookup function. What I want to do is develope my own database for my movies, books, etc and have a function or script that will lookup information from the internet about the item. I want to create something like what delicious library is doing. You can put in your book ISBN, and it will pull the author, title, year, ect and populate the fileds you want.

Hey there, I am working with CSS to format data that can be viewed via the webviewer. I am in the middle of trying a few things and would like to keep CSS information in a seperate file outside the webviewer. However, I cannot manage to refer to the external CSS. The content of my webviewer starts with: "data:text/html, ... Both the Filemaker file and the CSS file are in the same directory. I tried this with a "normal" HTML file (without "data:text/html,) and things worked. Any ideas...? Thanks a lot, Mike

I am trying to find a way if there is one of storing a web page from the webviewer as either an image, pdf or as a web page archive to a container field rather than just the html code I am creating a monitoring system for a price comparison site. When a customer clicks on the item it takes them to a third party site to purchase. When they finish and close the browser window they are presented with a feedback form to indicate if the price on the third party website was correct , near or way wrong. These responses are then submitted and auto emailed to the original price comparison site The idea is to be able to monitor which retailers are uploading mislead…

I have a field within my DB that contains a URL, this in turn loads the URL's website into a defined Web Viewer. I've tried searching for this but was unable to find an answer.... Is there a way that when the website loads into the Web Viewer it can automatically resize the site/content to the size of the actual Web Viewer?

hi there. it's been a while. i would like to create photo pages from photo's that i have in a database. each product has an image that i would like to show a thumbnail then have it do a lightbox effect to a larger image and information. i was able to do this with just the images using a thumbnail generator. i have the code that i would like to use and the java scripts... just need to put it together. thanks

I am trying to learn how webviewers work, can someone answer the following questions and provide any help? 1. How does the customizable report in the Webviewer example file of the FM site work? I tried to understand the scripting methodology, but I'm not awre of the whole concept behind it. Can anyone explain? 2. Can someone use a web viewer to show related records portal-likewise? If yes, can you use a web viewer to gather related records from multiple tables into one multi-section report? How can be done? Thanks in advance

Hi there. I am investigating the possibilities of making a database which will contain geographic data (taken from Google maps) and display them in a small window inside FM. Also the ability to select the exact location from within the FM environment woould be great. Does anyone have an idea of the overall implementation for the task?

Ok, I'll do my best to explain. I have a web page (form) that i've make viewable in a my FM database via webviwer layout. What I want to do is be able to create a few buttons in FM that will allow me, after clicking into a form field "paste" text into the field on the web page that I've linked to the button. Can this be done? I can do it within the FM layout into FM fields, but can I do it into a form on a webpage in webviewer? If I can, I can't figure it out.

Just implementing a documentation system for documentation on the internet; works fine using webviewer BUT... There is an oddity with pages that autostart and/or loop audio-visual content; once such a page has been started within my webviewer and I change the active URL of the webviewer, the audio/vis content keeps playing (without the page.... Example this URL http://iaaa.nl/hh/LBclips/win-hh.html When you open this URL in a standard web brwoser and click away from it, it stops (of course) palying; not so with FMP 10 webviewer. Only while this URL is active I can "kill" the looping audio/vis URL by using the webviewer command Go URL and make the URL an emp…

Hello. For the past couple weeks, we've been developing a website in PHP, and would like to make the site usable through Filemaker via a web viewer. The problem is that, while the site renders beautifully on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc..., it just does not work on IE! I know that on Windows, web viewers are based off of Internet Explorer, so I was wondering if there is a way to change which browser Filemaker's web viewer is based off, so that it renders correctly. Thanks.

I'm looking to have a web portal on each customer record that will display the weather and current time for their address. I found this script at weatherforecastmap.com. forecast for This should be ablt to be pasted into a web page but in fairness a portal is not a webpage. I tried this at home on my Mac and pointed the link to the HTML file inside the weather widget and it worked great. When I bring the file back to work, it doens't work because the path to the widget library isn't valid on my work machine. 1) does anybody know if the parts inside the weather widget can be packaged into a corss platform widget so this can be used on a mac …

maybe someone can help me on this "problem" I have a contact database ... and I want to include the whitepages.com funtions for looking up phonenumbers and to verify addresses ... instead of typing everthing into the website I want to automate it with FM this is the "query" I have .... the red part is the name of the respective fields but I always get an OOOPS ........ "http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&/*firstname=*/ [color:red]Contacts::First Name & /*name=*/ [color:red]Contacts::Last Name & /*where=*/ [color:red]Contacts::City 1%2C+[color:red]Contacts::State 1"

Hello, I'm trying to setup a WebViewer that would get a shipping quote from the CanadaPost server. It seems it should be fairly simple. In the attached HTML file the entire xml is taken from a field of the form. I want to turn it into a PHP file that takes the various pieces of data (not the whole XML) from the URL so I can have a WebViewer that's set to refresh http://www.myserver.com/getcpquote.php?CPCID=CPC_DEMO_XML&FZIP=mip1c0&TAT=24&...... And give me the text string of the server reply in a variable or field so I can parse it a present it to the user. How ? Thank you :

I assume this has already been asked but I can't find anything and I've been working in a cave for 2-1/2 years so I'm way behind on using the web viewer. Googles new speed requirements are creating a big problem for me because of the speed of FMS and the required physical distance between my web servers and the database server (Linux web servers in New Zealand, Canada, South America, etc. with the Windows database server in Calif.) I have some existing 'full featured' websites that have a few dozen pages that use the FM PHP API but are fairly static. I'd like to leverage what I already have then create static pages via FMS or a robot then send them to the web se…

Greetings! I've working with a database of artists contracts which we have the physical contract scanned into PDF's on a shared network server. Currently using FMP 10 Adv. and not on server 10 yet but will be installing it soon. My end goal is to have IWP access so users can access via any browser with a log in. When they look at a contract I would like for them to view the pdf either in the web viewer or create an open URL button to open the file in adobe or a new window of a web browser. The Open URL would be more ideal as some contracts are 30+ pages. I can get this to work in Internet explorer 8, and the IWP works fine with firefox and chrome but when…

Is it possible to fire a script whenever the user navigates to a different page within the web viewer? I have tried using GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "Viewer" , "source" ) in an unstored calculation field, but that doesn't seem to auto-update when the user navigates. If I can get that working, I think I'll be able to fire a script when the calculation field changes (using a plug-in), but that seems overly complicated. Plus I'm not sure that it will work. Is there an easier way to do this?

Quick question, How would I set up the web viewer to go straight to Street view? I have a real estate solution i am working on and would like the web viewer to show the street view of a particular property. Thank you in advance, Anderson

Is there a way to limit the browsing to just one website? Also, websites with username and password restrictions, I tried writing a URL to automatically enter that then submit, unfortunately, I have not been successful. Is this even possible? Thank you for any help.

Is there a way to figure out what page a user is viewing with a PDF displayed in the web viewer?

Hi all, Im trying to plot multiple members in my database on a map (presumably flash or javascript). Does anyone know, recommend maps I can use in my web viewer to display pins of where my members are. I currently store postal codes and would like to use this to pinpoint where they are. Cheers Jalz

Hi, I am want to know that how can we create dynamic charts in file maker pro using web viewer. plz help me how can i do this in file maker.

Can a web viewer be a button in IWP? Thats pretty much the question.

Has anyone managed to get this to work? All I get is "data:text/html,

Hi, I am trying to get the content of a webpage after the page has completely loaded. Is there a way to wait, without the Pause for 2 seconds command, until the content has loaded? This is my current set-up: Loop Pause/Resume [Duration (seconds): 2] Exit Loop If [GLOA("wv";"content") != ""] End Loop Reason being is that this is not 100% fool proof. Some time this fails. Anyone else use something similar?? Many thanks, Jim.

Hi. I can’t seem to get the Web Viewer to reload after uploading a file. I am trying to reload a Web Viewer (SuperContainer) and I keep getting Error 5. I named the object “superContainer” and the script step is: Set Web Viewer [ Object Name: "superContainer"; Action: Reload ] It just keeps returning Error 5 (Command is Invalid). The SuperContainer is working just fine and eventually, the item in the Web Viewer does reload but its not instant.

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Simple example of controlling a web viewer with applescript. More advanced operations are possible. Bruce WVClicker.fp7.zip

I'm having a problem with the webviewer, in that I cannot see anything on it at all. This just started happening, and I have no idea why! Even if I go in and hardcode the URL, to something like www.filemaker.com or a local file path, nothing happens! Not even a file not found, so I'm disinclined to think it's a connection problem. And no, I am not in find mode by accident. If I try to grab the source, all I get is . This is happening in all files, but only on my computer. Other computers on the network can open the same files without a problem. It used to work just fine, but I don't know exactly when it stopped working. Could I have broken it with a new java …

This is my first post at this community. I've got a problem with getting text data from web site. If it's just a html web site, you can use "GetLayoutObjectAttribute("web viewer"; content)" to parse all the html written in the web page. But if I do the same thing in order to get text data from the web like http://hoge.com/test.txt, unnecessary text part come with it.( like html header part) I've found the plug-in "Troi URL", with that I can parse the only part of the text I want. But if there is another way to do this without plug-in, that'll be awesome. Because I want to make an exe file with Developer Utility mode. (I guess that making exe file doesn…

I have a web viewer that is displaying youtube movies. The problem i have is that the new movies HD size is so big. I would like to see a smaller version to take up less room in the web viewer. Is there anyway to do this and to center the youtube video.Thanks

Google offers a free charting API. It is actually pretty cool. Here is a very crude example where I used to produce a pie chart in filemaker. I wanted to share this idea. I think this may be much better and has more functionality than most add-ons that are on the market.

Hi everyone, Hopefully this is a quick and easy one. I have a webviewer that I use to extract some figures from a webpage. The webviewer is in the header. I'm in list view. When I move to a different record the webviewer reloads unnecessarily. If I'm not connected to the net I lose the page I had. Thanks Phil

I am making a medical DB and was interested in charting a series of data points with a number of Dates over several years where the interval between consecutive dates is not the same (ie. Jan 1, 2000 then March 6, 2003 then Sept. 9, 2003 then Dec 8, 2008 etc) and these would be on the X axis and corresponding numeric data point on the Y axis representing a Lab value. Can this be done in FusionCharts? Does it need xmCharts? It seems that FusionCharts needs dates of equal time between dates such as consecutive months. Thanks a bunch in advance...

Another technique that recently occurred to me relates to injecting JavaScript into an already-loaded web page within webviewer. Interestingly, this can be accomplished without *any* plugins. The utility in this is that you can submit a form post to a site requiring cookies, previous login, etc, and specify *only* those fields such as login/password, no need to code hidden fields, tokens, session parameter fields, dynamic timestamps, etc. To achieve this, after, say, loading http://www.google.com, you pause until page loads, then set the url to "javascript:void(document.f.q.value = 'whatyouwant to search for');" this will cause the search field to go to "whatyo…

I would like to have a custom saved Google Map show in a FileMaker Web Browser window. Google provides a URL for the map, but Filemaker will not display it when put in as a custom address (I think this is because some of the characters are not properly processed by FM). If I paste the URL into my web browser, it works fine (Safari or Firefox). The URL: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid= 115249005935867093286.00046f72f1a220387436d Does anyone have a work around for this or know if I'm just doing it wrong? Any help is appreciated.

I'm trying to show some data:text/html in the webviewer using php. when i put in <?php ....some php code.... $var->showMap($markers);?> The webviewer is displaying "showMap($markers);?>" It appears the Arrow Operator is creating an issue? Has anyone seen this? Know of a work-around?

I am currently running an automated script that scrapes data from an HTML based lab system in my hospital. I collect study data this way. I was wondering if there was a way to get the html source without having to render HTML page first, as this would, theoretically, cut my data capture time significantly. Right now I use a loop to detect when the page has loaded in the webviewer and then scrape the code using getlayoutobjectattribute and then parse the code. It works great, but I'm always looking for ways to shorten the data collection time and this is the major limiting factor in the script. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

I recently went ahead and performed a MS Update to my laptop (XP) I had been postponing, and ever since I have a file that crashes everytime it attempts to open a URL (it loads completely, FM freezes, then crashes a few seconds later). Now I have tried giving it a different "vanilla" URL to test whether it was the a problem with the site or the file itself, and it appears to be the site. I suspect it might have to do with some update to internet explorer. Has anyone else had this issue recently and could you fix it or is there some new issue to be aware of?

When I display a list in web view it shows 25 records. I can show the next 25 by clicking the next page icon on the web view version of the Status Area. However most users do not have access to this area. Is it possible to replicate this action (seeing the next 25 records) with a button on the form? Many thanks John

I have a web viewer that starts here: http://alpacanation.com/alpacas-for-sale.aspx The user can then enter the search criteria and select an animal from the search list. I have an extract for the data from the animal page. After the extract, I want to return the user to the list of animals from the search criteria page. I can't figure out how to capture the options selected on search and none of the "set webviewer" options (back, forward, reload) seem to work. Must be a simple solution??? Also, is there a way to extract a picture from the web page into FMP10? Thanks.

Is it possible for a script to detect which method the user has used to access the database, either via the program in the usual way or via Web Publishing, so that I can use different scripts and layouts depending on how the user is accessing it.

I want to be able to have users view PDF files through a WebViewer in a FileMaker database. The PDF files are stored on the same server as the database, the path to the file is stored in the database. So the user clicks on the file name visible in the FileMaker layout and a script sets the WebViewer to a PHP program and provides it with the parameters needed to find the file. The PDF is supposed to open in the WebViewer using Adobe Reader (or Acrobat if the user has that). This works fine in Safari, but Firefox downloads the file and opens it in another window. Is there a different PHP method to force the PDF to display in the WebViewer? Currently, I'm using …

Hi, Has anyone built any custom functions or does anyone know of a way of how to get all the URLS/links from a text field or web viewer within FileMaker 10? Many thanks for any suggestions... Jim.

I was wondering if there have been any open-source attempts to more thoroughly automate the webviewer with a plugin. It seems as though some commercial plugins such as MBS can interact with the WebViewer. So far, by running "Microsoft Spy++", I've discovered the embedded browser (WebViewer) is a window of type Internet Explorer_Server, and has parent windows as follows: Window 0017115E "Filemaker Pro Advanced" FMPRO7APP Window 002A13B0 "" MDIClient Window 001A07C2 "Test_JS_Calc" Afx:00400000:28:00000:019... Window 0002085A "" AxWnd80u Window 00040842 "" AxFrameOrView80u Window 00020850 "" Shell Embedding Wi…

Hello, I am using FM10 developer and have a problem with my web viewer displaying. The viewer was displaying properly until recently, I tested the viewer and noticed this problem. I get the following message; (“Still loading slow?” Try basic HTML). The page does not load. I tested this out on other computers on my network and have the same problem. I am using Google Maps (US) with the required, address, city, state, and optional zip code fields. I copied the web address I am using from the web viewer setup; ("http://local.google.com/maps?" & "q=" & /*Address=*/ ${K-9 Reports}:street & "," & /*City=*/ ${K-9 Reports}::city & "," & /*State=*/ ${K-…

Is there a means of muting audio that emerges from a web-page displaying in a web viewer, short of turning off sound on my computer? What's particularly problematic is that the audio continues even after moving off one record and onto the next. I'd think this would be a common problem for which there is some simple solution? Albert

I am working on a solution where i need to save a pdf that is opened from web to a container field to be displayed in a layout. This is for stock research so let say that the web address is www.website.com/reports/Symbol.pdf and i want to have a script that will download that pdf for every record and put it in a container or save it somewhere on a computer so it can be viewed without being connected to the internet. Thanks for your help. If you need any clarification please let me know. Scotty

Hello FileMaker Group, I wrote a little javascript to run a FileMaker script from the web viewer and use a data url in the web viewer to run it. Unfortunately, every time I run it, I get a warning message box that says "An ActiveX control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction." Does anybody know any way to prevent that message from coming up every single time? Create a a webviewer and a field called "html" and put this javascript code in the field: In the webviewer define the url calculation as follows: "data:text/html," & html Here is the javascript that goes into the ht…

Hi everybody! Is there a way to show a $var/$$var on a FMP10 layout? Perhaps using that powerful tool called Webviewer? Many thanks for any idea! /steve PS my tables are filled with utility fields I would like to deprecate... ---- lexan-me-com

I'm evaluating FP10, and javascript is failing to execute in my web viewer. here is a sample: http://www.omansion.com/2020/fp10-test.html this works identically in FMP 8.5 and in Safari. But in FMP10, it is busted. I wonder if it is because I have installed webkit? Any help is greatly appreciated! -Dan

I have embedded my database into my website through the use of an iFrame. Now, I'm getting this error: Message: 'top.iwp' is null or not an object Line: 50 Char: 27 Code: 0 URI: https://www.. I have tried to find a solution for my problem but to no avail. I see that this topic was discussed in http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/201373/post/318242/hl/javascript/fromsearch/1/ but it doesn't seem that they have come to any clear conclusions?

Hi, we are developing a FM10 application and using Supercontainer to store usergenerated pdf forms (invoices, orders etc.) and scanned imasges (pdf's, jpg's etc). We tried using the webviewer to display a preview of these documents (coming from supercontainer). When trying to preview a PDF, the web viwer displays it properly on a Mac OS X client, but fails to do so on a Windows XP client. Is this to be expected or are we missing something?

I'm trying to use firefox for my webviewer instead of IE. I did change the default browser setting with no success. Is there a way to do this in Vista 64? Thanks

Can anyone help me figure out how to take the WebViewer one step further so I can automatically get driving directions from Google Maps using a set address (my house) for the FROM address and the addresses in my contact database for the TO address? I don't want to actually interact with the WebViewer to get the driving directions. I want them to show up in the Web Viewer automatically so I need to use a different URL address. I could not figure it out from Google's Driving Directions URL as it doesn't show the FROM and TO addresses in the actual URL. EXTRA CREDIT QUESTION: Then is there anyone out there who has the time to send me a sample file that can actu…

Hi how can i display VML graphics in WV ?

I'm trying to display a simple jpeg in a web viewer on IWP. Everything is fine in FMP, however in IWP the web viewer renders with a 2 pixel border on top and left, even though I have set the borders OFF. I can overlay an invisible box with 2 pixel border to overcome buy this is a real cludge. Also, if the web viewer is set to have a fill colour, and my jpeg is smaller than the web viewer the FMP renders wrongly, bit IWP renders correctly. And another thing, the image is displayed a few pixels right and a few pixels lower. Any ideas?

How can I tell FMP to Load a Local .html file into the webviewer? I could have sworn I saw a tutorial on this somewhere on the web or in a book, but I can't seem to figure this out. Thanks Ben

I have a layout with a webviewer and I want users to be able to highlight text within the webviewer which is copied to the clipboard by a script. The first line of the script is "Copy[]" This works fine if the script is run from the scripts menu. I would ideally like the script to be triggered from pressing a button, however when the button is pressed, the webviewer is no longer selected and the highlighted text is lost. I'm not sure if the button method is possible but thought it would be worth an ask! ANy help hugely welcome.....

hi everyone. it is possible to retrieve data from webviewer? i would like to do next: 1. user type in id field number 6 2. we use user number and go to site whatever?id=6 3. we show result in webviewer .. this can be name "john" 4. we use name "john" in another script or can i retrieve data in some other way over the internet? without odbc. tnx in advance!

By giving my web viewer an object name, I have sucessfully pulled the HTML from it for the first HTML page that loads. My web viewer is loading based on a field -- where the URL is typed in. I use the following functions: to get HTML: GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "dataviewer" ; "content" ) to get the URL of the current page: GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "dataviewer" ; "source" ) Here's the wierd part though. if I load my first page A.html and then run the two functions above, it works perfectly. I can extract the HTML and the URL and store it in a field. however, if I navigate …