SuperContainer by 360 Works

I'm looking for some clarification about setting up FileMaker Server 12 for CWP (PHP) when using SuperContainer. 360Works has noted that: "The FileMaker 12 Web Publishing Engine does not currently support plugins on 64-bit operating systems. To use plugins with Instant Web Publishing (IWP) or Custom Web Publishing, please ensure that the FileMaker Web Publishing Engine is installed on 32-bit operating systems." Does this mean that if I'm using SuperContainer with custom web publishing on FileMaker Server 12, I need to install on a 32-bit system? It sounds like this is the case, but I'm not sure if SuperContainer is considered a plugin in this context, given that…

Hey Everyone, I recently ran the Software Update on one of my clients FileMaker Servers, and ever since then it's been very unstable. First, I was having trouble with the java applet causing the web viewer to crash. I finally found out that it I needed to upgrade SuperContainer, fixing that problem. But that's not why I'm here. When I run SuperContianerServer.jar, it will run okay for several hours. Eventually, it will run out of memory, spitting out errors like this: SEVERE: An error occurred while handling request /SuperContainer/Files/images in thread http-8020-Processor28 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Dec 5, 2011 4:11:31 AM com.pr…

Have just upgraded FMS on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter from FMS v20 to FMS v22. As with previous upgrades I have followed the instructions for adding the URL Rewrite Rule to IIS for the FMWebSite; when trying to access SuperContainer there's a 404 error. I then reviewed the latest Catalina log file (FMS/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/jwpc-tomcat/logs and found three WARNING level entries: [Server/Listener] failed to set property [AWTThreadProtection] to [True] [Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context] failed to set property [className] to [org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext] The context path [/] has been changed to [] There are …

I'm trying to install SuperContainer on a server that is behind a firewall that prevents most access to the internet. The installation is failing as it cannot download Apache Tomcat. If I manually download that and copy it to the server, where should I put it so the installer will see it?

I have SC installed at C:\Users\SuperContainer I want to move them to a new volume F:\SuperContainer what is the proper way to do this with out messing anything up? Thanks SD

I see documentation about the function "SCSetErrorCapture" http://static.360works.com/plugins/SuperContainer/plugin-documentation.html#SCSetErrorCapture but that is the "SuperContainer Companion Plugin 2.9515 User Guide", and I have Version 3.03 (7/18/2023) running now. In FileMaker Pro 19.6.3 on a Mac, with SuperContainer Companion Plugin 3.03, I'm not seeing the SCSetErrorCapture function available in Script Workspace.

Added SC on a test Mac server and noticed all folders are locked to the admin user? I tried adding the server account to the super container folder rand apply to all but new files come in as locked.

I am using supercontainer in a stand alone deployment. using SCGetContainer, for some reason: only 1 computer on my network is showing ERROR. in a calculation field , type container. I have an up to date plugin. I have latest FileMaker. i have setbaseurl in startup script. And it’s working fine on other computers. I’ve been racking my brain for a week on this… thought I would try some other ideas from here. Thanks!

Hello everybody, We have been using SuperContainer for years - with good results - but I am hitting a roadblock now and was wondering if some of you could chime in with best practice suggestions as to how to time limit access to certain SuperContainer paths. Security for SuperContainer is nested within the folder path - know the path, get access. I know all the arguments for and against, but it has been accepted practice to handle access that way, the theory being that a long folder path essentially equals a username/password combination. There is one big drawback, though: A username/password can be revoked, or a password changed. …

What is it about SC and FMP (Mac) that forces FMP to always be in the foreground when looping thru records uploading PDF's to SC? Natively importing or exporting files i am able to open other apps and continue working but doing similar task with SC every time you navigate to another app or the finder FileMaker is forced to the active foreground app.

We have had for long period Standalone SuperContainer server running on OS X but we need to move it to Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition. We love the previews that the MacOS do construct for each PDF as it is well stated. The question is to ask i there Is any way to circumvent the windows limitation and get those same previews with the same tools, or something that involves BaseElements. Thanks in advance.

I have a monthly process that I will be doing end of next week. The only hold out is SuperContainer being M1 compatible. I'd love to do the entire process this month using the latest FM version M1 native to see how my process improves in performance.

Hi, We have SuperContainer running on our 2018 Mac Mini under OSX Mojave. We had a disconnection earlier today, so closed the DB's, restarted the Server Opened the DB's then went to Restart the SuperContainer Server but got this Error: "Java - lang.reflect Invocation Target Exception" I went in and reentered our UserName & password but the server keeps report "wrong username". If I restart the server, it continues to show the Wrong User Name error and we can only see the default message in the Web Viewer. as per the attached screenshot. Can I download another java installation to overcome this issue? John Wolff Hamilton, NZ

rHi, We've been using SC for years and have never before encountered this issue. On one workstation, a 2015 27" iMac, our served solution which has ~25K products, refuses to retain a new image of the product, despite being present in the Server folder for all other product images, each residing within their parent folder of the same name. Other workstations don't exhibit this behaviour. All are running FMP v18.0.3 under Mac OS Mohave or MacOS Catalina. Earlier today I deleted that Product record and imported the data back from yesterday's backup. I then opened the Data Viewer and watched the content of the webviewer. On that occasion the new image was retai…

I have a macmini server OSX11 / FMSv19 with SC v2.9516 installed. When I reboot the SCserver does not always come up directly with FMS. Webpublishing is enabled. As it is not a very reproducible issue, difficult to track, but are there any items I need to be watching here?

Hi, We currently use SuperContainer on a Mac Mini, hosting 2TB worth of data for use across our business (mainly images, pdfs, .ai's) which seems to perform well. Now we're looking to move SC to a virtualised environment. I'd like to know what others are carrying out here and if there is a optimal setup: Options available to us: Host SC on Windows VM on our on-premise virtualised infrastructure. But I believe if we do this, we'll loose functionality around displaying thumbnails of pdfs and .ai's - something we rely heavily on, unless anyone is aware of a workaround here? Look at using SC in the Cloud on a dedicated OS X server (needing at leas…

Hey, I am having some issues with an implementation of SuperContainer. Things had been working okay though they recently stopped working. Our FileMaker developer says that there is an issue with the installation of our SuperContainer server although I haven't touched anything since it had been installed and was working without any issues. Overall, I'm unsure if the plugin is having issues within FileMaker Server, or if it is the SuperContainer server which is having issues. This instance of SuperContainer (server instance) is installed on a Windows 10 machine, and is being loaded from FileMaker Pro 19 installed on other Windows 10 machines. When it tries to gene…

Yesterday I replied to an old thread - to be sure and make it clear, I'm just adding a new one here. What we're seeing on our Mac clients (and have been for 2+ years now) is: the web server (a Mac-based system) portion of our multi-machine configuration (DB server is Windows) has its security certificates in place. This means that when users access the web direct homepage, they're redirected to HTTPS. That works fine. However, Safari automatically creates an HSTS profile for that web server. That HSTS profile then automatically redirects any web traffic on that client to HTTPS. So if those same users have to interact with a SuperContainer web viewer, the web vi…

Hello, Usually I develop on a Mac but since COVID I have been working from home on my Windows 10 machine. I am CONSTANTLY having to restart FileMaker and be super careful where I call SuperContainer as on my Windows machine as FileMaker will constantly freeze when calling the SCSetContainer script step. Calling Line 25 causes FileMaker to pinwheel Even the Debugger becomes unresponsive when calling SC Functions

We're running SuperContainer version 2.9516, and we are getting the following error; "Plug-in Initialization Error Unable to launch plug-in child process JVM" This error is happening on a variety of machines - Windows 7, Windows 10, Mac 10.15.6, Filemaker Pro 18.0.3, Filemaker Pro 19.1.2, and some machines have Java installed, some do not. This error occurs when Filemaker is opened, not the database. When this error occurs, we have to go in and manually check to turn SuperContainer on. Any advice on this? Thanks!

Hello, since yesterday, all of a sudden my downloads are failing in a script like that: The temporary path is present on my local disk as follows: /Macintosh HD/var/folders/cw/l28ygv6523d4tgfjwknnc85r0000gq/T/S10/ But the directory is empty? Has anything changed with the SuperContainer plugin or with a Mac version update recently perhaps? Thank you! --------------------------------------- UPDATE - nothing wrong with SuperContainer or OS X. I rebooted my client machine and everything was back to normal - likely a local filesystem glitch or permissions issue that got re-set on…

We're trying to track down a problem and wondering if anyone has seen anything like this: Setup: FMServer is Win2012, web server (multiple machine deployment) is MacOS (Supercontainer running here). Our High Sierra clients are able to interact with SC content if it's scripted but the actual webviewer does not display anything (we sometimes use it to preview PDF or images). Win10 clients are OK. Older MacOS clients are OK. Seems to be limited to High Sierra (and maybe Mojave but we don't have many of those). We've tried updating Java, switching to HTTPS - no luck. The only substantial change recently was that we did get valid certs for both servers and do h…

Hi, Last week I was consulting with a reputable Claris Partner who warned me that the 29 thousand images (each one in their own parent folder) could be at risk of corruption if we exceeded the number allowed in our Products folder, stored within the path that leads back to the Shared/SuperContainer Directory. I was surprised as we'd always believed that Jesse's rationale for the SuperContainer architecture was based upon the premise that there was "no limit" to the number of folders that could be stored within a parent folder but there could be limit to the number of files stored within a single folder. Is that premise still true? Meantime, we've mitigated …

My organization is having me move some of my Filemaker solutions to new servers and I want to know how I can move a one supercontainer license to a 2 server configuration of FileMaker. The new deployment will be running FileMaker 19 on two servers. One Master Machine inside a firewall and one Worker Machine (web). I assume I should download the latest version of SuperContainer but I am not sure how to install it for a 2 machine deployment. Do I load it on the master machine or on the worker machine? I use SuperContainer to allow my web users and FMP users to upload and download attachments through a web viewer on the same layouts accessible through both FMP an…

Hi, I'm looking for recommendations on Backup products and/or procedures for the images held in the SuperContainer folder, which is in the /Users/Shared folder on our FMS Mac Mini. We use BackBlaze for other Macs in our business and hope that we could extend its usage for the FM Server as I gather it does not touch the database files, nor others in the /Library/FileMaker Server folder. Thanks, John Wolff

Hello, I have quite a few calculation fields that use SCGetInfo. I am trying to migrate towards a FMS19 installation on Linux - how do I install the Companion plugin on FMS 19 for Linux? Thank you!!

Hi, We have some 25K images stored in the SuperContainer files on our FMServer running on a 256 GB SSD on a Mac Mini. They only occupy about 7 GB of space but I'd like to keep plenty of space free for additional DBs. Backups are moved to an external HD. As there are now external SSD's that will connect via ThunderBolt 3, with exceptional R/W speeds of up to 2800 Mb/s, I'm wondering if this is an option for offloading those SuperContainer files. And will the SuperContainer server also need to reside on that external SSD? Our Products table accesses those images and I wonder if there will be a noticeable delay in rendering those images. Most are jpgs of no m…

When I use SCGetInfo on a SuperContainer location that is password protected, how do I properly submit these credentials in SCGetInfo? Actually, I figured it out: It's set in SCSetBase. Thank you!

Hello- I am getting confused - When I have a calculation field on a Filemaker Server hosted database file that is basically SCGetInfo(path) - which SuperContainer Companion plugin instance is responsible for rendering that calculation result? The one installed on the Filemaker client computer, or the one installed on the Filemaker Server? I am confused about this as I was certain the server side Companion instance would do the math. However, I just set up a brand new FMS instance on a brand new machine and had no chance to install the Companion plugin yet - yet, the calculation seems to return the correct result? I am thinking is…

I've installed the latest version of the SC Companion plugin on FMS19 (Mac) but it won't load. Is this a known issue?

Hello all - My Supercontainer Server works like a charm, and I also use the Companion Plugin in some of the unstored database calculations on the Server. For instance, I need to check which of several document locations was uploaded, and the FM unstored calculation field is something along the lines of: If ( Cases::Client="Test" or Cases::Client="Test 2"; If ( not IsEmpty ( (SCGetInfo("https://domain.com/SuperContainer/Files/REVISION/" & Cases::CaseID & Cases::CUUID))) ; "https://domain.com/SuperContainer/Files/REVISION/" & Cases::CaseID & Cases::CUUID ; If ( not IsEmpty ( (SCGetInfo("https://domain.com/SuperContainer/Files/Wor…

Setup: FMS 18, FMPA 18 on Mac Catalina. While SuperContainer and the Companion plugin works just fine in general, I can reproduce an error where I create a record which triggers the attached error message: java.lang.illegalArgumentException: Argument for @notNull parameter 'folderPath' of com/prosc/supercontainer/plugin/SuperContainerPlugin.SCGetInfo must not be null This is strange on several fronts: - It's not triggered by the server - as another client machine here works just fine without ever triggering this error - It seems to be a java Error, but the Window is labeled 'SuperContainer Companion Plugin Error'. - The plugin then …

Following up on a post I had submitted a while ago. This issue has been occurring much more frequently for my client. I've figured out that for any JPG over ~5MB they upload via the companion plugin, the file ends up in a locked state and cannot be deleted. The message I receive when I attempt to delete the file directly from the file system on the server is that the file is in use by java.exe. If you upload another JPG over 5MB, the first file is no longer locked and the newly uploaded file is locked and cannot be deleted. In order to delete the file, I have to stop all java processes on the server. Any thoughts on what the issue is given this inf…

Hello all - I have been struggling with this one file a directory limitation. It has served us well over the past 7 years, but at the client's expense. They need to upload one file at a time. We are now fiddling with a Dropzone into a file.io temp container. The idea is to allow multi file upload through file.io, and then use the ephemeral file.io download link to populate the respective SuperContainer directories. From what I understand, there is no SCCompanion directive to push a downloaded file straight into the SuperContainer location? I am using the workaround to download the file.io link into a FM Container; and then, in a second step, u…

We have been using SuperContainer for nigh on 10 years for storing several thousand product images. Every so often we need to access the particular image via the Finder from another Mac on our 1 GB/s local network, usually to correct a file name. The files are stored in a directory on the FMS SSD under this path: /Users/Shared/SuperContainer/Files/Grandmothers Garden/Products/ The FMS is running on a 2012 4-core MacMini with macOS 10.14.6, 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB of SSD. FMS version is 18.0.2. The SuperContainer directory has these stats: 6.9 GB with 3.3 GB in the Products folder and another 3.4 GB in a Thumbnails folder. Are both of these folders needed, as th…

What type of URL do I need to put in a web viewer in order to upload files via webdirect with the Supercontainer? On the server machine I installed the SuperContainer Companion Plug-in in the file location /Program Files/Filemaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/cwpc/Plugins after I rest the server , on the server machine I open Filemaker Pro Advance 18 ran a script pull version of plugin and got a value number but I opened in Web Direct it didn't give a ? or a number I can upload pictures in Filemaker Pro advance but no Filemaker Web Direct

Is there anything special that I need to do in order to use the Supercontainer Companion Plugin in Web Direct? It's installed and running (verified via Server Admin), but when I try to perform a script step with a SCVersion, it just returns '?' The companion plugin IS compatible with Web Direct, right?

I have a client that upgraded to FileMaker Pro 18 and upgraded their SuperContainer Companion plugin to version 2.9516 and is reporting their file upload window looks like it is from an older version of Mac OS with fewer options for sorting/viewing files. I've attached a screenshot. Any idea why this would happen and what can be done to fix it? They are using Mac OS X 10.14.

I have a web viewer in my FMP solution that I run on FMPA 18 on macOS. When I ran it on High Sierra, everything worked just fine. Since I upgraded to macOS Catalina (I know, I know...), the web viewer does not handle changes to the Supercontainer contents well. For instance, when I hit the delete button, the SuperContainer deletes the contents, but the web viewer will still show the old word document. This may prompt the user to hit the delete button again, when SuperContainer will throw an error because no file is there to be deleted? Worse, it will still show the old file when in fact the SuperContainer is empty. I am able to m…

I am trying to move a FileMaker Server-powered, SuperContainer-using web site to a new, dedicated, virtual server hosted by Triple8. Tech support there strongly warns me against hosting web sites from a FMS server. I understand their concern and know that it's easy to just point to the FMS machine from the separate web hosting machine. But SuperContainer really complicates this. Suppose a website, "exampleA.com", is trying to serve a page that wants to display an image generated by SuperContainer on the FMS machine, which has domain exampleB.com. The image tag on the page served from exampleA.com would read something like <img src="http://exampleB.com/SuperCon…

There seem to be a plethora of micro hosting services. is there a preferred affordable SuperContainer host? Usually it's on the same server as the database but may want to put pdfs and content on another server.

Hello - I am taking an old database offline and need to take the referenced images in Supercontainer and insert them into a picture field, since I won't have access to SC for that database any more. Is there a script I can use to download the full-sized images and import them into FM? (using FM 17 which is accessing SC data on a FM 11 server running SC 2.864)

So SuperContainer works well for us. That is, when you finagle the upload and download matters for Word Documents and then edit said document in an offline Word version. The problem now occurs more and more access to our website is from iPads and other mobile devices, which naturally lack a proper filesystem and Word applications on these devices, leaving us stuck. Is there any good website embeddable MS Word compatible online editor that will our users to edit the Worddocuments we have stored in supercontainer to be edited online? I am struggling to find a good answer myself as most of the 'online Word editors' yield results about go…

Hello - I have been using SuperContainer for years and we use it to 'pipe' the SuperContainer URL as $attachmentpath to the Attachment section of the Filemaker Send Email Script step. This works perfectly when run on the client software. However, I cannot get it to run on a server side script, where I would like to send certain email attachments automatically at certain times of the day. I do have the SuperContainer companion installed on FMS18 on a Mac - is there any pearls of wisdom anybody could share? Has anybody done this? Thank you.

We have Filemaker 18 server with Supercontainers installed, the client machine has Filemaker advanced 18 - 32bit with java 32bit installed. I have tried the 64bit version and have the same issue. I have added the server IP to the java security settings, along with allowing active X controls in internet settings. I am getting the following error when the applet tries to load. com.prosc.supercontainer.FileviewApplet Any help on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Andy

Hi: I have SC on a W7 Profesional machine and Tomcat. FMS 11. Any recommendations on how to restrict WAN access to the files hosted by SC w/o having to use passwords ? ideally I would like to restrict it to the users computers MAC addresses, but I have read that is not possible. Could it be done by restricting it to the IP’s? Any other suggestions ? thanks and regards Carlos

We recently upgraded our server from a MAC solution to a PC solution and we lost the ability to view our pdf files hosted on this server via our FileMaker solution. Instead, we just see an Adobe PDF icon. Our assumption is that this is related to our Mac server generating our previews and the PC not generating that preview. The display does work fine for jpg's and some other files hosted on the server, which is why I think it's related to how the PC server is rendering, or lack thereof, a PDF preview.

Presently we run v9 server and clients in our office. It has worked very well for many years. If I can find the solution I would upgrade but I have not found a good reason, yet. We design and sell pre engineered buildings. When a building is designed is generates a folder for that job. In that folder are program specific files and sometimes the folders are large in size. It would be nice to drag and drop the folder (or anything else) into a field in filemaker and it would store it on C:/ and have filemaker reference it and be able to get it out through filemaker It seems that all the solutions I have found so far have file type limitations? Or it is clunky…

Just switched servers and loaded SuperContainer Server v. 2.9512 to the new server. And now for some reason, the thumbnail preview only shows the bmp icon for the file and not a preview of the image. The web viewer shows the image just fine. Any ideas?????

Hello everybody - Finally moving Supercontainer to a dedicated CentOS machine with tomcat8 and all the bells and whistles. Got it set up and running nicely - only when I upload files to the SuperContainer, all of a sudden I am hit with a 1 MB File size limit? The error message I get seems to be thrown by Catalina/Tomcat, saying: The upload exceeded the maximum allowed size on the server However, I tried to no avail to increase the maxPostsize parameter in server.xml and also the manager web app from 50 MB to 100 MB - yet, I can't even upload a 2 MB file. Downloads work fine for all sizes. What am I …

So I am using the SCCopy to transfer images from one record to the other and that part works just as I wanted it to. However, I am finding a few issues and I'm wondering if someone can explain it to me or tell me if I am doing something wrong. 1. Say I accidentally scanned the wrong image to the main parent (where the image was copied from), and I overwrite it, it overwrites the file it was copied to as well. Should it do that? I was thinking the SCCopy made the image a completely independent image. It appears in it's own record folder on the server. 2. We have this option to download images from Filemaker to our desktop. I have a checkbox in place to retri…

I am wondering if anyone has advice or know of a way to safely copy SuperContainer images from one record to another. We used to scan images on one associated record but now our boss would like to scan images to all of the associated records. For example I scan someone's driver's license to record 1 and then I need that same scanned image on record 2-10. Is there a way to loop through and save the image under all of the records so that they do not have to be uploaded individually on all 10 records? Right now we are on Filemaker 17 and FileMaker server 17. Mac OS = Mojove Our images are stored on an external server. The address in which the images…

I see that Super container supports drag and drop. Does it support drag and drop between two different super containers on the same layout? Also does it support moving a file between two different super containers on different layouts?

We have a webdirect app for customers. They can logon and see their account information. As part of this solution I use supercontainer to show customer files, for example pdf invoices. Recently we upgaded from FMS13 to FMS16. I reinstalled supercontainer. However ,after the update the files no longer show in the app. for example: https://ipaddress/SuperContainer/Files/528CD212-1951-D44C-AFEB-302ECE376F91/1018-1192-17664_0.pdf I see a message no file choosen. The folder and file do exist inside the Supercontainer fodler. Any ideas why the file is not displayed?? Joost Kingma

We are needing to move our uploaded files out of SC, along with their linking information. Is this possible either through the FMP interface or using an alternate method? We have a developer on staff that is creating an application that will custom fit our needs. Thank you Al

Hi - when will SC support HEIC images?

(I posted this in another area of this site but received no responses so I'm wondering if SuperContainer can do this?) I can't seem to find a definitive answer as to how to view .pdfs stored in container fields (on our PC server, stored externally, open storage) and via WebDirect. I have the Data Formatting command set to Interactive Content and have Adobe Acrobat Pro (and Reader) on my client machine (Mac), but that's as far as I've gotten; database is stored on our FMPS v17.x server (Windows). Cheers, Rich

We've been running SuperContainer for many years now with few problems. Recently we upgraded many users to v16 of FM Pro client. We've been running SC Companion Plugin v4.32 successfully for the most part. However, on our Windows clients only (Mac users are OK), if a user attempts to download more than one file FMP client immediately quits with no error reported - just closes immediately. This is for two separate download attempts, first file downloads fine, second file causes the problem. Using SCDownload function with showSaveDialog=1. I thought perhaps it was time to update Companion Plugin versions. So I downloaded and tested 2.9510. Now on both Mac and …

Is there a way to set up the SC app server to *not* serve documents via URL except when accessed through a Filemaker app? This would be a same server setup.

I use supercontainer for a customer module. A customer can log on through a webdirect connection to view their info in our CRM system. Part of the solution is that they can view PDF documents, for example invoices. I use supercontainer to give them acces to these documents. Customers can only view their documents, so I use style=readonly on all documents. This works well, except when I have a document that has # in the name, for example ipadres\#drsstuk.pdf?style=readonly still shows the delete button in the webviewer. Is this a known bug or is the hashtag a character that is not allowed?

I'm running into an issue where the SuperContainer Companion plugin seems to no longer work on a specific image. The image preview displays fine but no plugin functions seem to do anything (and no errors reported by the plugin). When I investigated on the server and tried to delete the problematic image from the SuperContainer directory, Windows displayed an error message saying that the file was in use by java.exe and could not be deleted. To resolve the issue I have to kill Java processes on the server and restart the server to get SuperContainer working again. This has happened twice in the past week and according to users, they hadn't manipulated the file in any w…

Does SC have the ability to drag-n-drop OUT of the container to another Windows application (such as Outlook)? If not, does anyone know of a plugin that adds that ability to FM running on Windows 10?

Hi, new to supercontainer. I have a dataset with over a 100,000 images in a Filemaker container (v16 on FMServer). I am trying to find a method that allows an individual to download images from a found set all at once. I've been able to get a script working within Webdirect but it seems to require selecting a button to download images one at a time which is not convenient to say the least if you have 100 or so in a found set. Does supercontainer allow this sort of download? Thanks.

I'm experiencing an intermittent issue with SC Companion Plug v2.9504 running in FM16.03.302 on OSX 10.13. The issue occurs on multiple machines running the same configuration. Issue: 1) FM Launches successfully but 'unchecks' SC Companion Plug. SOLUTION: Recheck SC Companion Plug and restart FM. 2) FM Displays the error: "?" failed to initialize. SOLUTION: Hit 'OK, FM quits... they retry. Please advise, Peter Lehrack Reliable Permit Solutions, LLC

Hello, Since upgrading one of my clients to FileMaker 16 (on Windows 10) and SuperContainer 2.9504, they've been having this problem where FileMaker sometimes won't launch if the SuperContainer Companion Plug-in is in the Extensions folder. In Task Manager, FileMaker appears as a background process, but never finishes opening. Removing the plug-in, launching FileMaker, quitting FileMaker, then putting the plug-in back fixes the problem--for a while. SuperContainer Companion is the only plug-in that they use. I've seen this problem mentioned in the FileMaker forums, but here it seems to be caused by the plug-in. Any ideas how to solve this? Thank…

I'm running into a problem with the SuperContainer Companion plug-in where, when I call the SCChooseFile function, the Select File window ends up behind the FileMaker application window. This was initially reported to me by users accessing a FileMaker published application over Citrix. Because these users don't have access to the desktop or other applications, they get stuck when the window is hidden and the Citrix session has to be forcefully closed. I recently had the same problem in a different system with users running FileMaker Pro on Windows. One user discovered that she could use Alt+Tab to flip through different windows to bring it to the front. This use…

We've got SuperContainer running on FMS 14 and have run into a weird problem. We're storing mostly pdfs, but also some jpgs and pngs. For the jpgs and pngs, we've been experiencing an occasional oddity that I finally tracked down. These are image files that, for the most part, users take photos with their phones then upload via CWP. Image sizes range from 500 KB to 2 MB. The issue arose because we resize the image files and convert them to pdf, eventually collating them into a single multi-page pdf that needs to be email-able. Sometimes the resize would fail, giving the full image. The same files always failed. We were resizing using height and width tags and tr…

I'm seeing weird results using SCGetContainer() and I think it has to do with image orientation. I'm working with jpgs and it appears when an image is rotated. If GetContainerAttribute() "orientation" is applied to a file and the result is "6 (Rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise), not applied" then when I access that file using SCGetContainer() any width and height constraints are not applied. It will always return the full file. I have not tested it with other orientations. This is on FMPA 16.02 using SC plugin 2.9504. Any ideas? Have you seen this before?

Hi, I've been reading thru SC documentation for the latest release of the Companion Plugin and recall seeing a short reference to a method for loading a jpg into a portal. There seemed to some special properties that needed to be added to the URL. Can someone please help me? Thanks, John Wolff, Hamilton, NZ

I didn't see any specific mention of SC in the new platform for FM16. Just that all plugins are compatible. What does this mean? Is this the end of the road for SC?

We have deployed SuperContainer in a large corporate set up. Upon upload, no problems for anyone. Upon download some users (only!) are experiencing that the filename changes to a number (the number of the folder that SuperContainer stores the file in). How can I rectify that so that the file keeps it actual filename?

Hello, I installed supercontainer on my Windows server at aws Amazon. I also installed the companion plug-in. It shows up on Filemaker Pro no problem. But it doesn't show on webdirect. Any idea? Here is my configuration: - FMS 15, Windows 2016 server. - SuperContainer 2.94, build 9234. - I have the companion plugin put inside "..\FileMaker Server\Web Publishing\publishing-engine\cwpc\Plugins". - The plug-in I use is "SuperContainer_Companion_Plugin.fmx64". Thanks. P.S.: I will send an email to 360works. But just want to post it here so we can all share the solution. Thanks.

360works, We have a problem with our web forms with supercontainer. our server log is this. Processing of multipart/form-data request failed. Connection reset An error occurred while handling request /SuperContainer/Files/Vendor/604/BusinessEINDocument1 in thread http-8020-Processor8 ClientAbortException: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error Can you help us about this? SC.log.txt

I am testing DocuBin (and SuperContainer), in demo mode, but I keep getting an error in SuperContainer: Invalid license This license type is not supported. You may have switched the 'License Key' and 'Registered To' fields, or need to upgrade to a newer version of the product. When I try to register SuperContainer in demo mode, it gives me a similar error: [I try to delete the contents of the "Activation code" and "Registered to" fields, but the fields keep reverting back to being populated] You are running SuperContainer version 2.93 SuperContainer will be in demo mode until a valid license code is entered. Enter your registrati…

I am running a fresh installation of 360Works SuperContainers v2.93 but when I start the SuperContainerServer standalone, I get an error message that says "Problem starting/stopping: Check Folder permissions as Log File cannot be written" I've checked the 360Works website and can't find any articles describing this exact issue, however I do see an article that shows the default directory of the Log files that SuperContainers uses and noticed that the OS (WIndows Server 2012 R2) does not have the directory required...(C:\Documents and Settings\SuperContainer\SuperContainer.log) but if I try to manually create the Folder it tells me it already exists. This issue persi…

We have had 360 works super container for years and it has work flawlessly up until now. If you upload a single image, it works fine. However, if I try to upload a folder of items, it crashes (or gives me the spinning ball of death) on the following line of code. Set Field [ Prefs::gpluginCall ‘ SCSetContainer( Document::cDocumentURL; $CurrFile) ] The variable Currently file is the file path. If I downgrade back to FileMaker 14 Pro Advanced (FileMaker 14 Pro for all of the other users) it works absolutely fine but as soon as you upgrade back to FileMaker 15, it crashes. Do you know of any compatibility issues with the SCSetContainer in Filmmak…

greetings all! A question for the network security gurus: I have Supercontainer running in standalone mode. My router has port forwarding to the machine (Mac-mini). My credit card vendor requires security IP address scans and I am failing due to the port forwarding on the router. what is best practice? I am using a router flashed with Tomato Shibby.

I've got a couple SC licenses running on different servers. I've got one database and I want to store files on both servers. (why? well, I'm migrating from one server to another, but it's go to be done over a couple months due to bandwidth limitations). I'm storing each image's filepath as a record in a standalone table. That full filepath will be different depending on the host for that file. When calling any of the plugin functions by script, I believe got to also call SCSetBaseURL, right? That base host is either taken from the record (if downloading) or given based on business logic (if uploading). I want a calculated FM Container field using SCGetContainer(). …

I use tpdf to create pdf files from a FileMaker database. This results in a URL that opens the "Save As" dialogue box. I would like to have a FileMaker script that will opens this URL and automatically saves the pdf to a programmed-in location. Will SuperContainer do this?

FM 13, SuperContainer 2.9 Web Viewer in Web Direct on iOS ( iPad ) using "No Applet" shows the image, but has no buttons to "delete" or "Upload" What am I missing ? greg

When deploying FileMakerCloud on AWS, the FMS script enige will have no access to localhost ports. Will this affect running SuperContainer on such a configuration ?

I am trying to install supercontainer (2.93) on a Windows server 2012 R2. The Windows installer did not finish, so I tried a manual install with the instructions provided at docs.360works.com. When I try to save the URL rewrite rule I get an error "The data in the page is invalid". When I try to use the option to start SuperContainerServer.jar I get an error "Problem starting server". Any suggestions on what to do here. Thanks Joost Kingma

Is there a good way to rename files? And did the behavior of SCMove() change recently. A few months ago, I was testing using SCMove() to rename a file SCMove by using the same filepath for the old and new paths, but adding a filename parameter SCMove ( filepath ; filepath ; new.filename ). I thought I had it working ok. I let the project sit for a couple months and just came back to it and now it's not working. I'm second guessing myself that I ever had it working in the first place. But it looks like SCMove() may have changed, now accepting key/value pairs rather than just a filename. I've tried it both the old way and with filename= and neither works. My …

Companion plugin v2.9 refuses to enable plugin on startup (unchecked in Preferences->Plugins, when checking box manually, dialog says "?" failed to initialize). I installed v2.93 in its place (and deleted the 360Works folder from my user folder), and FM immediately crashes on startup until I remove the plugin from the Extensions folder.

Hello, I am using FM Server 15 on MacOS (10.11.15), and trying to get SuperContainer to work with Web Direct clients. I am having several issues using the Web Direct clients, so I hope someone can help me. 1. First of all, which installation option do I use? I am referring to the SC Documentation http://docs.360works.com/index.php/SuperContainer#Option_1:_Using_SuperContainer_as_a_standalone_server_application: Option 1: Using SuperContainer as a standalone server application Option 2: Installing SuperContainer with FileMaker Server In both scenarios, I can see FM Server being depicted. What are the pros and cons of using each one? 2. Which http po…

Hi, We're wanting to load multiple images for each product onto a product's web page. Our web designer has made provision for this by adding a field in the product_images table for the display_order, eg 1, 2, 3 etc. I thought it would be convenient for us if we held those additional jpg images in the same folder as the first image which is already there. We'd use distinguishing suffix to the product code that also matches their display order. Will this have any unintended consequences for the SC server?? Thanks, John Wolff (Hamilton, NZ)

I just upgraded our server that was previously 10.6.8 and running FileMaker Server 11 to Mac OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan and FileMaker Server 14. I can't seem to get SuperContainer fully installed. I have downloaded the latest Tomcat and put it in the 360Works folder but the installer still hangs on the "Installing 360Works Tomcat daemon". I installed the legacy version of Java per some instructions I saw somewhere. When I delete the 360Works folder and run the installer again it re-creates it but it only has two items in it (360Works Admin.jar and folder named Internal with nothing inside it). Thanks, Nick

I can install SuperContainer 2.93 for my FM Server 14 running on OSX Mavericks, and got it running fine. However I am not sure how to install the Companion Plugin. I copied the SuperContainer Companion Plugin 2.93 into different folders /Library/Filemaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/cwpc/Plugins /Library/Filemaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/wpc/Plugins /Library/Filemaker Server/Database Server/Extensions but I still get an error message when I start the SuperContainer Example.fmp12 file saying that the SuperContainer Companion plugin is not installed. I did restart FM. Tried rebooting the osx machine, and restarted F…

My client had to renew their SSL certificate this morning, after which they received this error: Could not connect to SuperContainer server: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed They've been running for many months with no issues. The certificate is from GoDaddy. I've already implemented the suggestion from this thread, to no avail: This is on FMS 13, Mac OS X, 3-machine deployment. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi, I am trying to install the SuperContainer plug-in version 2.93 into Filemaker Pro 10 running on Windows 7 64 bit, but have been frustratingly unsuccessful. I have put the plug-in into several folders, but it is not showing up in the plug-ins list under preferences. Here are the locations I've tried: adding a folder named "extensions" to the C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\FileMaker\FileMaker Pro folder, and then putting the plug-in there I also put the plug-in into this folder C:\Program Files (x86)\FileMaker\FileMaker Pro 10\Extensions. This is the location where I've placed other functioning plug-ins. Is this plug-in compatible with FMP10? Am I m…

We have a dual-server FMS 13 setup with FMS's web portion running on Mac OS X 10.8.5. We have a database using multiple SuperContainer web viewer fields accessed over FMS's WebDirect service. The WebDirect page uses SSL with a Geotrust primary + intermediate certificate setup at https://site-address/fmi/webd# and SuperContainer files are accessed over http://site-address:8020/. This all works very well, but with the major issue that the WebDirect page is secure but the SuperContainer fields are not. Web browsers throw up a warning that the page contains mixed secure and non-secure content and our users have to authorize the browser to display all content otherwise they d…

I know this question has probably been asked many times but we will not be upgrading any time soon because of the nightmare experience from the last upgrade. It took almost an entire day for several people working to get version 11 working 4 years ago. We will stay on version 11 or move to some other software if we can find it before going through that experience again. I kept all of the log files and documented most of what I did; however, the person that did most of the upgrade is no longer with us, and shudders whenever I see him and talk about the experience. I install software frequently for my job but FM is far from friendly. Does FM have any plans to integ…

What can the folks at 360Works convey about the comparison of the new Container field features of FileMaker 12 versus SuperContainer? Drag and drop files Faster performance Thumbnail generation [*] Remotely stored files (and, they can be individually encrypted) [*] Stream content without waiting for content to download

I am working with a document repository that has existed for a while, however I now have the need to be able to rename an already uploaded file. I figured I'd be able to do this either by calling scMove or scCopy and specifying a new filename parameter while leaving the filePath the same, but unfortunately I've had no luck so far. Is there an easier way to rename an uploaded file or am I going to need to go down the road of 'download file -> remove file from server -> re-upload file with new file name to old folder path'?

Is Supercontainer working with Filemaker Server 14? I tried to install supercontainer on Mac OS 10.10.5 and after no succes on Mac OS 10.9.5 but also no succes. The version i try to install is Super Container 2.9 When installing it 'stops' with installing 360Works Tomcat daemon and in the console we see every 30 seconds a crash report for httpd Is there a documented solution for installing Supercontainer with Filemaker server 14?

Wondering what the status of SuperContainer and DocuBin are for use with FileMaker 14? Been trying to get them configured on my dev FMS14 machine without a lot of luck yet.

Hello, Will a two machine FileMaker Server deployment, with SuperContainer on the web publishing machine, give better performance than a single machine FMS deployment? There are 10 FMP users. Most layouts contain images from SuperContainer, in some cases many images. Thanks, Lauren

I have a script that uses SCGetFileURL. It works fine in SuperContainer plugin 2.792. When I updated to the 'FMv12' compatible plugins eg 2.861 & 2.863 this function has now gone missing. I have tested this on 2 Macs. When I revert back to 2.792 the function works ok.

Hi, My setup is a portal displaying a repeating field. This repeating field is an unstored calculation evaluating SCGetContainer (mypath ; id on SC). When my id value on SC is the first repetition of the field, SCGetContainer displays correctly. When I am using the second value, I get a blank display. Is this something that can be done with the SCGetContainer Function? Thanks for everyones help. ole