Web Viewer

Any ideas on scrolling the web viewer content from buttons on the layout? I would like to suppress the web viewer scroll bars via CSS, and have layout buttons that perform page-up/page-down on the target viewer. Thanks

Hello, I am hoping that someone has an idea of what I could do to circumvent this problem: I open a document (excel or word) in the webviewer. If during the same session I want to delete the file, it tells me that the file is locked or in use (even if I am no longer looking at the file, the webviewer has been refreshed with another file or it is blank). If I check in task manager, it shows me that excel is running (it's not in my taskbar). It looks like the file stays "in use" even if I exit FileMaker: the only way I found to unlock the file was to log off or end the Excel process in task manager... I thought that I should write a routine that "flags" …

Hi everyone I wish to get some data back from a URL...The URL is in the form of a "submission string" and I have correctly formatted the query string parameters to bring back data. The returned data only consists of two lines of text in CSV format - the first being a header. The second is 4 very short fields. On a layout I have a web viewer object named wvmileage If i use a "custom url" ("http" etc as above) it does indeed return the text file into the viewer and if I then (in a script) set variable: $temp = GetLayoutObjectAttribute("wvMileage";"content") then $temp correctly returns the content of text file. So far so good. BUT …

Upgrade to Mac OS 10.4.11 (and Safari to 3) disables pasting into web fields. Info can be typed, but not pasted.

Is it possible to scale down the size of a how the web page displays via the web viewer?

If I want to have a web gadget show up in a form using the web viewer, how do I allow the user to interact with it but NOT have a scroll bar on the side?

Hello All I need to use a web viewer but in my situation I would not like the scroll controls or ( scrollbars ) to show. Is there any way to set or script this to occur? Thank you Dave

I've created an 8.5 reference lookup database for automobile enthusiasts containing multiple tables that I want to share on the web. To use the information I've stored requires the user to select a series of scripted buttons, one at a time, each selection taking them deeper into the database. Each selection provides more focused information until they've reached the particular part of the database they want to view. [i.e. button 1 - selects a year, which displays every make manufactured in that year, button 2 - selects a particular make, which displays every model manufactured by that make . . . etc] My question is . . since the user interaction requires active chan…

Hello all, Is there a way for a web viewer to scrap information within a frame? I tried using View Source in IE or Firefox and they returned well. However, while I did that on Web Viewer, it returned message that it didn't support the frame. I attached the full message about the error. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Archive.txt

Hello, Is there a way to script your user name and password to auto enter when using web viewer??? Thanks, Tom

Say I have two web viewers on a layout, one above the other - is it possible to click a link in the top viewer and the resulting page displays in the bottom viewer? I'm guessing the target attribute needs to be controlled, but then think even though the viewers have object names, there's no way I can use that in html?

Can anybody tell me if it is viable to use an i-phone to interface with a database that lives on a web based server? I would like to do this with something more robust than IWP. I would like to have filemaker loaded onto the i-phone. Any ideas? Thanks, Jarvis

I am trying to "scrape" html source via the web viewer using the following script. Set Field [Patient::Source; GetLayoutObjectAttribute ("Reach" ; "Content")] "Reach" is the webviewer object name This works perfectly when run within filemaker, but when I run it over IWP (where I need it to run), the target field only displays the URL of the webviwer, rather than the source code. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

If I have a form open inside a web viewer in FM and I want to populate it with data from FM can this be done? Of course it's always the same form so I know what the form name and field names are. Is there some kind of way to interact with the web form similar to javascript where I can update the fields? Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I could kick myself for this; I definitely know better. But I started fooling around with webviewer on a file without making a current backup first. Now I've broken the file. The solution is created using FileMaker native tab options. I added a webviewer on a subtab to show the location of a selected event and apparently I made a mistake when entering the address information. The file crashed as soon as I left layout mode for browse mode and now it won't even open. And the crash report, when I try to read it, flashes by in about 2 seconds. Anyone have any suggestions that don't involve recreating from the (far too old) previous backup? TIA from FSFD (f…

Is there any trick to getting the web viewer to slide in printouts? I've set the object with "Set Sliding/Printing" but it's not working for the web viewer.

How do you print multiple pages in web viewer? If you drag the field below the first page in fm, the remaining pages printed are blank. Anyone got a work around to this?

Hello, I am working on an asset page for our computers and would like to take advantage of the Web Viewer function. My goal is to link to http://www.apple.com/support and pull the information from the "about you support coverage". Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm sure this has been discussed, but I can't find it anywhere. Is is possible to have a webpage load in the webviewer and have filemaker extract data into database fields? Is it the same as using a parsing calculation to extract data from a text field? Thanks

Does anybody know how to set the fmp field value to a either website or web-viewer ? also how to trigger the website's submit or search button ? even a heads up ? thanks,

Hello All, It seems I will be spending lots of time with File Maker at my internship. As was requested of me, is there any way to get filemaker to kind of "sit on top" of a filestructure on the network drive here. I was thinking that I might somehow be able to have the webviewer function navigate to a directory on the local drive instead of to the www. This way I could see icons to say all the PDF's in a specific folder and as they were updated to that folder they would appear in File Maker instead of adding them to the folder and then opening filemaker and adding them one by one. The whole functionality of this is that I will be tracking developmental dr…

Hi all... I've used this forum a lot as a resource in learning Filemaker, but this is the first time I haven't been able to resolve a question simply by searching. I'm using a webviewer in Filemaker 8/9 to utilize google's geomapping features: we take an address, use the google maps api to determine a latitude and longitude, and generate a map with a pinpoint and description at the address. This works fine under OS X, but under Windows none of the pinpoints show up. If I open up the url that the webviewer is using with Internet Explorer I get the same problem. Using Firefox and Safari, everything works like a charm. Does the Windows version of Filemaker use I…

I am pointing my webviewer toward an HTML page with frames. When I save the content to a field, it seems to be saving the error page content that tells me that I need to be using a browser that supports frames. So.... How do I specify which Browser Frame I save to a field using the GetLayoutObjectAttribute function?

I am stuck on how to get summary data into the charting process, whether the approach I use is via the charting database process or a plugin like xmChart. Specifically, I see how static values are used to generate the results, but I want to get summary data into the string. Say I have a sales results table with the following fields: Salesperson Sales Month Year Product Value Sum Value Calculated Summary Value by Salesperson and Month Year How can I get that summary value into the string so that charts are produced showing a particular salesperson’s performance? Any guidance please?

Has anyone had issues with the following senario: If i place a webviewer pointing at a flash page with moving elements on a tab and then switch tabs the moving elements carry over to the next tab layout. Its a real pain!!! System Specs: FMA 8.5 OS X 10.4.10 (Intel)

Web Viewer can see all kinds of file formats and I think it would be helpful to explore this fully. For intance - you can display Quartz Composer documents such as screen savers. Quartz composer documents can have RSS feeds. So for instance you could subscribe to your own DDR and display it in a web viewer. You can view PDF, HTML, text, Quicktime, various image formats.. what else? For instance download some example Quartz Composer files from here: http://www.timeoutofmind.com/quartzComposer/quartzComposer.cfm

I'd like to be able to reference a Flash File on a Filemaker application that is distributed via a CD-ROM. Customer installs Filemaker application on their own hard drive Customer opens Filemaker file and Flash introduction runs automatically I've checked everywhere for information on relative or local file paths. I'm even willing to convert Flash file to Quicktime, but need assistance in configuring the right file path in web viewer. Thanks in advance, and I apologize if this has been requested elsewhere.

I have a system set up with an item database and a picture database. In a layout in the item database I have a portal to the matched picture in the picture database. When I view the item database in FM Pro 8.5 itself the picture shows up as it should, keyed by an item number. But when I view using Web Sharing where the picture should be I see ''. Both tables are open, both databases are set to allow web sharing. Yet the portal contents are missing when web shared. Any ideas about what I might do to fix this?

OK, I'm "dark green" when it comes to web viewer...what I'd like to do is the following: Using a report layout, have the web viewer appear in the footer. So the user can view each employee that needs to be updated and have the web viewer at the bottom. This way they don't have to toggle between applications. The problem I'm seeing is that as you scroll the web viewer restarts itself (goes to the URL specified each time). I'd like it to stay 'static'. All I can think of now is having two pop-ups which is not what I want to do. Any ideas anyone>

Just wondering if they've fixed or added the feature to print webviewer-inline PDFs from a layout yet in v9. Really bugged me since in 8.5 with the introduction of the webviewer, I could view PDFs beautifully on my layout, but they wouldn't print out. Thanks! Kane.

Just a quick question about IE and web viewer. I have IE 7 and have very little inclination to upgrade to a newer version unless I can take advantage of certain features in the web viewer. The question is will IE tabbed browsing open tabs within the IE window in the viewer when links are clicked that open new windows? Rather than open a new IE window outside of FileMaker. If anyone has dealt with this I would greatly appreciate any input you could offer. Obviously this is at the mercy of the current users settings if it is possible, and it would have to configured in the browser prefs but I could handle that if I knew that it was at least capable.

SELECT * FROM `products_options`;_____ DELETE FROM `products_options`;_____ INSERT INTO products_options ( products_options_id, language_id, products_options_name ) VALUES ('6','2','Speicher5');_____ INSERT INTO products_options ( products_options_id, language_id, products_options_name ) VALUES ('7','2','Festplatte 5');_____ INSERT INTO products_options ( products_options_id, language_id, products_options_name ) VALUES ('8','2','downloads5');_____ INSERT INTO products_options ( products_options_id, language_id, products_options_name ) VALUES ('9','1','downloads5');_____ INSERT INTO products_options ( products_options_id, language_id, products_options_name ) VA…

Is there a way to force the Web Viewer to process a URL with a percent sign (%) without converting the character to %25? I am unable to scrape data from a site which uses URL codes in their URLs, because the Web Viewer is messing with the URL before it gets sent.

var pos=location.href.split("?"); var info=pos[1].split(","); var lat=info[0]; var lon=info[1]; var latlon = new LatLon(lat,lon); // Create a Map object. Put your application ID in place of XXXXXXXXX var map = new Map("mapContainer", "XXXXXXXXX", latlon, 6); // Make the map draggable map.addTool( new PanTool(), true ); //Make the different views map/sat/hybrid available map.addWidget(new SatelliteControlWidget()); //Make the map zoomable map.addWidget(new NavigatorWidget()); // Create a POI marker object marker = new CustomPOIMarker( info[2][color:red].replace(/%20/g," "), info[3][color:red].replace(/%20/g," "), info[4][color:red].repl…

The web viewer example provides a hint at what is possible with web viewer but this really seems like it ought to be ground for techniques and examples almost as prolific as custom functions. For instance I have modified the Web Viewer Example to make it easier to configure, have multiple columns, etc and I will post it soon. Besides styles there are various javascript features such as table sorting and (seems to me) we should be building libraries of these functions.

Just a quick observation that the web viewer does some very strange things when you load a page "say google maps" and then zoom in. ...150...200...300...400 Worth considering if zoom is unlocked.

I am trying to post encoded information in an address to get information for each member of an organization. When I copy the posted information in the web address and paste it into another web browser address it brings back the appropriate page. However, when I post the same information in the FM Web Viewer, I get the URL code in the body of the resulting web page because the URL code has been converted during the post process. Is there some way to ensure that exactly what I type is posted to the web site? I have included a sample address to be posted below. Thanks, David http://www6.samplesite.org/member/private/memdetails.cfm?encrypted=%28%25O%5E5…

I was thinking about how to create a custom community per se and then map all locations within a particular radius of the starting address point of location where the end users would enter. I would like to build this radial community with Google Maps. In other words, lets say we have a db of various categories of merchants in areas, such as lodging, restaurants, entertainment, shops, etc as well as the addresses. Has anyone messed around with API enough to mark up a custom community? What I would like to end up having is the end user putting in a location and it finding all the various mechants in the vicinity and of course be able to filter it by category.…

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Hi. I am having difficulty printing acceptable quality from Flash graphics in a Web Viewer. I have enclosed 2 screenshots of PDF's printed on Mac OS X. One is from Filemaker regular printing, the other is from Flash using the contextual Print command. It looks like Flash is using the full quality available for the printing, while Filemaker only uses the visible data in Web Viewer. Does anyone have any ideas how to increase the print quality from Filemaker? I have several of these charts on the same report and I need to print them on the same page, therefore I can not use the Flash printing. Cheers, Andreas FM_print.pdf Flash_print.pdf

Ah, what's the easiest way to check if a web viewer has loaded it's content?

"Hello FileMaker World" Looks like you have a great forum here! I am a noob evaluating Filemaker 8.5 as a possible vehicle to parse and scrape content from web pages - saving said content to an FM database for massaging and printing. I have looked around the forum and see that it's possible to access the web page source and parse it with scripts. I do have the following questions: 1. What is the native character encoding of text entered into FM scripts ? 2. Is content scraped from a web page source in the original web page encoding or is it converted automatically to FM native encoding ? 3. Does FM use 'regular expressions' ? 4. Can scripts …

I am trying to integrate the Interlink (Courier) website in to a tab on my database. It all works OK, but when I click on the button on there web page which prints out the labels nothing happens. When I click on there button from safari, it does not display the lablels, it just brings up the print dialog to select which printer, and the label gets printed. Any ideas why the print dialog is not displayed when I click on it from the filemaker web viewer? Any suggestions appreciated Matthew

I have a javascript that brings answers to a calculation into the web viewer. Is there any scriptural way to copy that info and put it into a database from the web viewer?

I can't figure out why the "Set Web Viewer" (reload) step isn't working for me. If I go to another layout, the web viewer reloads fine. I've tried defining the Layout Object with a bunch of names, and I've double-checked that the names match in the script step. I've even tried Get(ActiveLayoutObjectName) in the script step. Anybody know what's going on?

Hello I now have filemaker 8.5 and when I make a script to populate the web browser with another web site, it keeps crashing. Any suggestions Thanks Dave My version is 8.5 v1 and I am on a Mac 10.4.9

Is there a way to script within the viewer to add multiple points on a google map. Say 200 or so from my database. I would like to do this in the web viewer. Has anyone sucessfully done this? Thanks

Hi To All, Hope someone has some ideas on this one. Webviewer is proving to be great to get information from a website and bring into filemaker. But if the website has to do a little more complex query that might run over 60 seconds I get timouts. This is a real problem. Any solutions greatfully accepted. Thanks, Lance

Hi, We have just started using Filemaker to keep up with our soccer team information. I have played around with the webviewer and have finally made it work to show the location of some of our games. Will Filemaker work with Google Earth also? Thank you, Brenda E.

Hi everyone, Does anyone have the correct definition (syntax) for the UPS tracking web site? Thanks, Steve

HURRAY!!! Safari 3.0 beta supports printing of SVG It works in the web viewer Amazing level of web viewer control now available for map making, charts... etc... Very exciting. www.apple.com/safari ------------- Safari 3.0 is available windows... Question for PC users... • Can you specify the web viewer to use Safari as default on Windows • Does Safari on Windows have the same URL length limitations? best Stuart

Very newbie to Web Viewer I have made my first attempt at using the Web Viewer. I have created a portal on my layout which has address, city, state and zip. What I am attempting to do is click on a button in the portal row which will open up a new window to show the address map in Google maps. So, I enter the address information in the first portal row and click the map button, the new window opens up and shows the map information and it is all correct. I then go to the next portal row and enter the address information and click the map button and the new window opens up However it still shows the address information that is listed in the first po…

Hi, I had the task of "linking" several databases together. The organization had two separate databases that sometimes shared the same information. To link them up would create more problems than they solved and also they only had to occasionally look things up. Rather than us a look up calc fields, I created a Web viewer that accessed the other database that was publish via the IWP engine. In this was they can access each others data and not interfere with each other. This might be a cool new way of using the WV to share info.

Hey Guys, I'm trying to make a Quick search page to allow our buyer to easily search for parts on certain websites within filemaker using the value from our Part_Number field. Most sites work fine with the exception of this one. http://www.digikey.com/ A Valid part number is MPS8599 Any help is appreciated cuz I can't seem to get this page to work. Thanks, Michael

I was thinking it would be really sweet if you could use the web viewer to make word documents on Google Documents and then have a script fetch the document into a container field. Then when you want to view it, it would upload the doc and display it in the FM webviewer. any ideas??

Ok, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a FM 8.5 database that I would like to import images from the web usig the web viewer. I’ve been trying to import the image from the following website: http://test.azcorrections.gov/isearch/inmate_datasearch/picture_handler.aspx?img=207904&searchtype=SearchInet The 207904 number comes from my database field of “Contacts::ADC Number: So I’ve tried to pull the image with the following URL. "http://test.azcorrections.gov/isearch/inmate_datasearch/picture_handler.aspx?img=" & Contacts::ADC Number &"&searchtype=SearchInet” Now, I get a dialog window asking to download the u…

I am a FM developer in a firm that does not officially approve FileMaker's use. I am tolerated because, so far, they cannot do what I can do. A question was asked of me by our IT staff that I did not know the answer to. Can FM 8.5 consume web services? I'm thinking yes via the web portal, but I am not certain. Can anyone elaborate!

I am looking for a way to add a button to a form to browse for a file to show in the webviewer and automatically add the address location?

Hi everyone. I have been doing some small number of sales on eBay and have a small Filemaker Runtime I created on a USB Keyring drive so I can log into my eBay wherever I am and update my sales and such. I recently was able to start uploading 50+ sales per week into eBay and now manually entering these sales into my little runtime is not as quick an "in and out" as it was initially designed to be when I was doing 10 per week. I am using Turbo Lister 2 to upload my sales onto eBay and right now I am manually capturing the data from my eBay page into my runtime. Is there a way to create a database within Filemaker that will bring the data in from the eBay site d…

This is my first time playing with webviewer. I am trying to load a URL that contains a '%'. It looks like this: https://www.site.com/feeds.cfc?method=Orders&ver=1.00&merchant=319&URLKey=Jo%3D The URL that it actually attempts to load is: https://www.site.com/feeds.cfc?method=Orders&ver=1.00&merchant=319&URLKey=Jo%253D It has replaced the % with %25, and it causes the page to not load. I have tried everything I can think of to trick it into sending just the %. Using different variations of to escape it out, putting the URL into a separate field and loading the field, etc. No dice. Any suggestions?

I've heard there's some way to view multiple locations at the same time on a Google Map with FM Web Viewer, but I'm not entirely sure how to do it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

I have a filemaker program that I have set up to record data and it is server based, however our staff would like to be able to access this from home and add data from home, rather than going into work to do this. My idea would be to add the program to our web page and have a username/password in which the staff can access and enter data from home. How can this be done? And how difficult is it? I hope someone can help Thank you

I would like to add a Company Name to the address area on Google maps,(web viewer setup) but I cant seem to add 2 fields to the address line in the web viewer setup My maps come out like this at the top of map: 1234 Some Street Mytown,MO 44000 I want them to come out like this: Joe's Bike Shop 1234 Some Street Mytown,MO 44000 or Joe's Bike Shop, 1234 Some Street Mytown,MO 44000 any help will be much appreciated

Hello, I am evaluating FM Pro 8.5 and am having basic problems with the Web Viewer features. I just don't know how to set it up and the documentation is just not helping me make the connection. The ultimate goal is to do some screen scraping. But the problem I seem to run into is that I don't know how to reference the Web Viewer as an object. At no point was I ever asked to assign an object name that I could use to reference it in a script. Also, the FM Pro 8.5 online help makes a reference to creating a Web Viewer as a button, but never really explains how to do this. The button can be given an Object name, so could this be the way to what I want …

I am using the Business Productivity template from File Maker and launched it to be used via web. One of the screens allows the user to choose from a list of tasks or contacts. The list is in a preview type mode with no roladex to the left. The problem is there are hundreds of records and I cant find a way to scroll to the next page via web. I see there is a way to go to the next record but not to the next page. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks Mike

Hi Guys, Anyone know if I can scale the charts down. I've gone into the vw.html file and edited the width and height, which seems to have scaled down the graphics to the size I want but I cant seem to increase the fontsize. I have a calc that contains type=intermpie, which seems to display my chart. When I change the type to pie, the chart dissapears (I think I n eed to use pie to get the fontsize to work as this is used in the advanecd pie chart calc.) Any ideas why changing intermpie to pie stops the charting example from working...... I can post the code if that helps once I've got access to my computer.

I have a white stripe in the top of the page when I open my db with iwp. does anybody know why this happens? thanks in advance

I have a database of records, each record has a serial number assigned by the registrar. I use a get function to first find the corresponding record at the registrar's site, then it locates the image associated with my record. The image is different for each record. I am using a webviewer to see the images, but it's a bit untidy. Some images are larger than others, horizontally and vertically and so the user must use the scroll bar (or the webviewer must be set quite large and consumes too much layout). Is there a way to tidy this up? I would like the image to always appear as one size, perhaps as a thumbnail inside each record. Am I stuck with the size, positi…

I have been tinkering with a calculation field that uses GetAsCSS(text) to preserve formatting of FileMaker text when published on the web. Is it possible to point the Web Viewer at this calculation field in order to preview how the text will appear on the web without leaving FileMaker?

I recently migrated a Mac running OS 9 and FM 5.5 to a Windows XP box running FM 8.5. There are about 20-25 databases that are searched through and worked perfect on the Mac. Since I switched over to the PC, I have been only getting read permissions although R/W permissions have been set. I can not search by web, but it is fine within FM. I also do not have a 'guest' option for people who I want to have read only access. Am I missing a setting? Please help.. This is driving me nuts. Thanks in advance.

I am trying to establish if Quicktime files (movie files) can be viewed via the web view of my database? My simple test of adding a movie file to a container field then viewing that via a web browser on another computer, did not work. Can anyone tell me if this is possible?

Hoping to save me some testing and time wasting. 2 possible goals here: With webviewer function be able to setup a dynamic or calculated string to cause the desired url to be called on a mass of records without going to each indvidual zillions of records to do it. example: http://domain.com/andpathalwaysthesame/image_fieldvalue example result: http://domain.com/andpathalwaysthesame/cats_and_dogs.jpg Another twist or solution desired would be to display in webviewere or container dynamically file://localhost/Users/G5user/Pictures/image_fieldvalue result: file://localhost/Users/G5user/Pictures/cats_and_dogs.jpg Basically I'm tryin…

Is there anyway to simulate a hard refresh (ctrl+f5) in the webviewer? I've tried refresh window, flush cache... and also tried changing fields the viewer references for urls but it doesnt seem to want to properly refresh... Any ideas?

Wondrous Souls, Do you have a solution to get client broswers accessing FMSA8 to auto update in iwp based on a number (of seconds) typed into a field? A hard coded version would be acceptable as well. You assistance will be greatly apperciated. Thank you!

I created a runtime (8.5 Advanced) tool to assist staff in entering data into our web based contact & businees management software. In short, as you flip through FM records, the correct contact appears in the viewer based on the contact ID's stored in FM. Using this method saves time since it takes 6 clicks and a search if you want to enter data directly from the website. Not efficient if you have 150-200 entries to make. The problem is that after scrolling through 25 or records, the solution bogs down and then freezes. Here is what I noticed: 1) When the solution is launched, it is using 25 or so MB of memory. 2) When you get to record 20, t…

Anyone thought about integrating the Webviewer with Google's calendar API? Is it possible? Greg

Hello I am a newby. I have looked in the filemaker manual etc for an answer to a really silly question. I have created a web viewer field to view the webpage of the contents of a web address field. Obviously, each entry has a different webpage. I find loads of examples of how to view addresses from external address, but none for existing address and show that. I am sure it is really easy, so I excuse myself in advance

This goes along with some of my other posts. The application I am working on produces a book. In that book references to PDFs or the PDFs themselves are stored in container fields. Recently I am favoring just storing the references based on being able to obtain the path to the PDF in question. Here is the problem: I want to print this book. That is the whole purpose of my applications development. The portion of the book developed in FMP is a no brainer to get it to print in sequence. But then I get to these areas where parts of the book have been developed in other programs with the information saved externally as a PDF and I want to reach out to those PDFs and pr…

Hi, I don't have FM 8.5, so I can't try it with beta version. Does the web viewer can be used in Instant Web Publishing? The new functions (relevant with the web viewer) can be used in IWP? Thanks Cabi

I can't seem to get the charting example to work. I keep getting the "The page cannot be displayed" message. When I open the WV.html directly, nothing is displayed. Any thoughts on where I might have went astray?

I've written a FMP Adv application that uses FMP scripting to generate HTML, then written the resulting HTML to a file in the webserver directory. I then want to use the "web viewer" to see the resulting web page in the FMP application. Everything is working, including converting the UTF-16 text making up the HTML to UTF-8. My problem is synchronization. I use perform applescript (thanks to another FM Forum member that provided this): copy cell "filename" of current record to fileName copy cell "Text_" of current record to exportMe do shell script "echo -n " & quoted form of exportMe & " | strings > /Volumes/WebDirectory/whatever.html/" & quo…

Is there a way to run a javascript on a page viewed in webviewer ? like Javascript:Close() As it is done in a address bar of a browser after a page is loaded ? Xoomaster

In my application i need to view some xyz.pdf from a lan folder, I have created a calculated field to take to Webviewer like this: file://Macintosh HD/Volumes/192.168.0.2/xyz.pdf ,it works fine with Acrobat Reader 5.0, if I use Acrobat 8.0, the web viewer shows only a acrobat icon. [color:red]...Why???

In the solution that I am working on, I will be tracking alot of documentation. I have a fear of storing numerous PDFs in container fields in the application because it might bloat based on file size and become slow. Is there a trend in creating a separate file for storing graphics / pdfs / etc... that would be linked to a main file in order to keep from overloading the main file? What are some rules of thumb here?

I have read some questions regarding Webviewers and PDFs. I have noticed that when I drag and drop a PDF only the icon shows up and that when I use "Insert Object", that OCCASIONALLY, the actual PDF will show up. Is there a trick to getting the snapshot of the PDF to show up in a container field? And how does it differ in Windows from Mac? ( I use both)

Hello, I am creating a solution that requires the user to print a map from the Webviewer inside of a Print routine, so that, essentially, the map is printed in the right order in a stack of other documents. I have no problem creating formulas, etc, to get the maps I need, but do you have to trigger a print function using Javascript or is there a way to do this with the "Send Event" function? What are some good approaches? I am using FMP8.5 Advanced. Thanks...er...in advance... :)

I have a container field that I use to store REFERENCES to pdf files. When I try to display these pdfs using the Web Viewer, it won't. When I insert files directly (rather than as a REFERENCE) using "Insert File", it works fine. How, then, do I tell Web Viewer to display the pdf linked to the REFERENCE stored? Thanks in advance!

I'm having difficulty printing a layout with a webviewer pointing to a PDF. On the screen, it renders fine. Beautifully, in fact. Does exactly what I want. However, when I try to print a hardcopy, all I get is a blank rectangle. I've tried this with both a local PDF, and a PDF from Adobe's website. Nada in both cases. HTML renders fine and prints fine, but I'm looking to do PDFs with the intention of including frequently-updated, high-resolution vector images as part of a spec sheet database. Can someone confirm if this is indeed typical behavior of FM 8.5 on WinXP, or if I just have something messed on my end. Thanks!

Hello, I want to load a site in my web viewer and put automatically name and password in the given fields. Is there a way to do that?

Hey Folks, I searched around and coudn't find an answer to this. Displaying FedEx results, I get a lot of 'non-value-added' header information (FedEx logo, etc.) It would be perfect if there were a way to tell WebViewer to scroll down, say, 100 pixels upon loading of the page, so I could save my screen real esate for what I actually need to see. Is there any way to do this? (through a plug-in or otherwise) I have read other posts that discuss grabbing the HTML code of a particular URL and then parsing this. This option just seems like a lot of work. Cheers, DD

I have dabbled with the separation model a bit. I could see using the webviewer to create an integrated "check for update" option. A dialog could show the user their current version with the web viewer showing them the most current version and provide a download link.....all on the same window. I have played around a bit and it seems to work like a charm. The main file (with logic and scripts, etc) is simply downloaded via the viewer. What is interesting is that there does not seem to be a "trail" of the download (since the viewer doesnt use a dedicated browser). Any thoughts on this? Greg

I'm publishing my database with the web viewer, and I have lots of different layouts that all use the same menu I created for users, but I don't see how you can make one menu that all the layouts will sync with so that if i want to change something in the menu i don't have to change ALL the layouts. Is that possible? Or am i doomed to copy paste the day away... Thanks for any help!

I want to make a library of PDF files available to my IWP users through Web Viewer. I can write a path that works on my machine, but am having trouble making it work in IWP. How do I write a path that will direct a web viewer in IWP to a PDF file on my host drive? I'm using Tiger at home and XP at work, if that helps. Peace, Pennsyltuckian

The new Web Viewer looks pretty nice and I can see some useful applications for it. However, what do you do when you encounter pages that use the POST method such as Filemaker's own store? http://store.filemaker.com/ In the left column there is a field where you can enter your Order Number and track your order's status. The form appears to use the POST method which does not embed parameters in the URL. How could you incorporate a Web Viewer to track the status of an order from from Filemaker's website?

I searched and hadnt found this issue. Has anyone found a way to use the Google Maps and return just the graphci map portiona nd not the space above the map where you input more info. I want to conserve screen relestate and this space is just a waste to me. Perhaps there's another map program out there that is better suited? Also - the default view of the Google map is the street view, is there a way for it to go straight to the Hybird (combo street and satelite view).

Just wondering if anyone here knows how to resize the charting add on Filemaker released. I got it working fine but i would like it to be smaller. Just wondering if its possible with the charting example they released. Didnt find anything here about resizing flash. Help would be mucho appreciated

I have a db on server 8 adv and have IWP turned on and I can not see the web viewer in my browser. if I have the same db locally and view the db via iwp in my browser it works. Any ideas why i can not see the web viewer via IWP when my db is hosted off of server? I am baffled.

I have set up a web viewer page that does a Google search on my contact name. I then look for pertinent info on my contact. Some times I have to go several pages deep. After I go 2 or 3 pages deep if I click on a link to another website I get the "Buffer Overrun" error message and FM crashes. I am concerned that this will eventually corrupt the entire database. Is this a bug in 8.5? Is there some way to increase the buffer size. Please help! Al

I have noticed this question posed a couple of times but have either not seen an answer or (maybe) have just been too dim to understand it. If setting up a web viewer url to my local machine I can either: "file:/C:Directoryfile" or "file:///C:/Directory/file" If setting this web viewer url to a server on my network I..... Have no idea what to do. Every filewin, file, include or not the IP address, forward or backward slashed variation has failed me. Just a pdf file on a server...should be simple. Yes?

Is there any way to get the web veiwer to pick wich browser you want to use? IE7 or Firefox?