SuperContainer by 360 Works

We are successfully testing a new FM Advanced Server IWP (Windows 2008 Server) solution which utilizes Supercontainer 2.82 to both upload (via drag-and-drop) and download (via double-click) various PDF files using Firefox web browsers (on Windows 7 PCs). Everything seems to work very well (most of the time), but one problem all users are reporting is that Supercontainer's Upload Progress Bar NEVER shows any progress. The bar remains gray, sometimes for minutes at a time for large PDF file uploads. However, Supercontainer's Download Progress Bar always works perfectly, showing a gray bar which becomes progressively green. Has anyone else seen this failing Upload Progr…

Hello all! First time post, trying to figure something out with my distribution. Single machine style distro, and I'm not able to get SCScanDirectory to return anything. Currently, just for testing, I'm trying to set a field in a table I've created (for testing) to the results of the SCScanDirectory function. I do have SCSetBaseURL set previously in the function, just for clarification. Currently, the function is SCScanDirectory("http://xx.xx.xx.xx:80/SuperContainer/Files/Salem Glen" ; True ) The Salem Glen is the name of the "parent" directory in the file structure that I have created. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello. Wondering if folks have ideas with a SuperContainer issue. We have recently updated to version 2.832 (client and server) from 2.7* and a behavior changes is noted. Specifically, we have a 'Brands' database that holds images of the 22,000 animal (cattle mostly) brands in the state. The technical requirements are: Images that are imported/exported into/from the Brands database must be sized and formatted to meet the following criteria... * 150x150 pixels * 72 DPI * JPG format * No larger than 8KB in file size This was being accomplished by specifying width, height and resolution in the appropriate SC function. e.g. SCGetContaine…

Just testing the latest release SCv2.851 and it throws the following error: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name com.prosc.supercontainer.applet, locale en_US java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:1427) java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:1250) java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:777) com.prosc.supercontainer.web.KitchenSink.doGet(KitchenSink.java:41) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) com.prosc.supercontainer.web.JSPModelFilter.doFilter(JSPModelFilter.…

hi, I am using super container with webviwer,my work is to find complete url of the folder with image name where the image is stored . I have taken one field called url in which i have to store the complete url of the super container image. for this i have made the url field as calculation and give the url of webviewer in url field which is calculation as("http://192.168.2.3:8020/SuperContainer/Files/Contact Management/" & Contact Management::Name_First) by using this i get only url of the folder not the image name. I need solution like: The field URL should get the calculated result as Full Path with Image name, which is using in the…

The saga continues.... I am having intermittent, and more recently constant, problems with 'reload'ing an SCContainer. I have copied and pasted one's that worked (for a while), deleted and added new ones, simply done everything I can think of. I download an SC and allow the user to modify with a graphic app. Then delete the original and re "Set" the container with the modified version. That all works fine, the modified SC is being created properly. However, doing a Viewer Reload right after or with a little pause does not refresh the container. I know everything is set properly because: if I go to layout mode and back to browse, it refreshes!! The viewer is pr…

Is there a known compatibility issue with the latest Java update? (v6 update 30, Windows XP ) I tried the latest plugin version 2.85 but it does not work. Other machines in same network have no problem, but this machine the user had installed the java update. I see no reference in the change log for SCv2.85 either, so this may be a new issue or an isolated problem on that machine that is not related to supercontainer. Peter

Hi, We have had a problem in setting up our supercontainer shared volume. The supercontainer does not allow to work (error 500) on a shared volume in its domain. We can of course write and delete with no problem form the Win Explorer, from desktop. We have try to set up the current system: Filemaker Server and SuperContainer both on the same server: - Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit) SP2 - FM Server 11.0.2.217 - Java 6.29 - SuperContainer version 2.792 Then in the preferences xml file, the WindowsFilesPath is configured to store the files in a net volume (\\host\sharedfolder). To allow it in volume's host computer we have set u…

I was wondering if it is possible to use scdownload fuction with IWP. I have been struggling to get this to work. I can get my script to work within native filemaker but not via IWP.

I can't seem to specify a filename with SCDownload. It keeps saving to the correct path but with the same name as it has in SC Server. Is my syntax correct? SCDownload($path; "filewin://remotecomputer/shared/path/"; "filename="&$filename&"."&$extension; "checkForFile=true")

With this style appended to the URL: "?style=listview+notitle+noscroll", and if there is no content for the specified URL, scroll bars are shown: It would be nice if the scroll bar was not there - can that be done?

Hi all.... I'm quite new to SC and having trouble. I have a system that upon a new record create I SetContainer to a default graphic. Open the record and it's there, fine. Then I launch the graphic with it's default program for editing by first SCDownload to the local temp path. Edit the graphic, save it (which updates the file in the temp folder). Then SCDelete the original and run another SetContainer using the file path of the modified file in the temp folder. That all works well and I'm deleting/Setting because the web viewer doesn't refresh. So I have, after the edit, a script that does the delete, the Set, then a viewer reset and reload. Sometimes…

I would like to use a scripted upload. I store the base url in a global field (ui::SCBaseURL), and can use this in a webviewer to upload and view files via supercontainer as expected. The calculation is: ui::SCBaseURL & "/Completions/SO/" & Substitute( order::id; "/" ; "-" ) &"/scan" and this works as expected. I then change the webviewer to this: ui::SCBaseURL & "/Completions/SO/" & Substitute( order::id; "/" ; "-" ) &"/scan?style=noupload " so that I don't get the upload button. Great. All works as advertised. I then attach a button to the layout with a script which effectively start with the following variable assignme…

In the FM Web Object and in the SuperContainer Server window the dates have the month first but I need them 2nd. The computer's settings are set to what the user requires (month 2nd) but SuperContainer isn't showing the right date format. How do I fix this? Is this a Java setting?

My client downloaded and installed the new 2.832 SuperContainer to deal with the Jave update issue. Unfortunately, they just double-clicked on the installer.jar file, which means they used installation option 2, installing SuperContainer into Apache Tomcat. We had been using SC with option 1, as a standalone server. I had the client open installer.jar and use its uninstall option. However, two problems remain. First, the images display in the web viewer at their original size, not sized to the web viewer. Second, when I access the database via Internet, the web viewer displays an error: HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report message description The ser…

Hi... I'm new to SuperContainer and need to upload files via a web browser using IWP. It should seem to be a simple task but I just can't seem to work it out! Even after reading the included Documentation.html. From what I understand I need to set the port to 80 in the SuperContainer.jar file for it to work in IWP. I click Options, set the IP:port to 10.0.0.11:80 but it comes back with an error message saying the port is already in use. Specifically: Problems starting/stopping. Protocol handler initialization failed: java.net.BindException:Address already in use: JVMBind:80 If I leave it as port 8020 it simply shows a grey web view box via the web browser a…

In the documentation that comes with SC dowmnload, the system requiremtents for WIndows says: Windows: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows Server 2003; Java 1.4 or later Notably missing is Windows Server 2008. Is there a reason for this or is it just an omission in the Documentation.html ?

Client using 3 Macs, OS X 10.6.8. PDF documents stored in SC are hardly readable. Fuzzy. This occurred after updating the most current version. I take my laptop to their office, same OS, and it the documents are not fuzzy. Any suggestions on where to look? -Jeff

I'd like to be able to stretch a small image (50px X 50px) to fit a larger web viewer (200px X 200px), and to scale with the web viewer if it is set to auto-size when the window is enlarged. Is this possible? Just to clarify, I don't want a small image saved as a larger image so it can be displayed at that size, basically I want to apply this css to the image in the web viewer: img { width:100%; height:100% }

Hi - I've been using SuperContainer workgroup at a client's for a few years and recently had a few problems with the Apple Java 6 update. As a result, we got SuperContainer current and working again (thanks to 360Works Support department), but in the process found that some of methods we were using to attach documents to our FileMaker databases no longer work. We used to be able to: 1. Drag a document directly from the Desktop or a folder into the Web Viewer for SuperContainer. This apparently no longer works - a folder for that document is not created on our FileMaker Server. Instead we have to click the Choose File and then click the Upload file in…

I have just migrated from my SuperContainer installation from an old Mac Mini 10.5.8 (non-server) to a FileMaker Server Advanced 10.6 Server on 10.6 (Server). I originally ran the installer.jar and now I am getting the restart server in 15 seconds message when launching the standalone, is this normal? I have read that there is the standalone or the installer.jar approach, thing is, I am getting errors when playing back my media files when the standalone isn't active. Is there something wrong with the installation? Should I just undo whatever the installer.jar did and run the standalone only? Is there instructions on how to do this? I am using port 8020…

I was running a script that goes through all the records and transfer the contents of a container field into SuperContainer. Everything seems to be working fine until the server hard drive ran out of space. The script calls that if the transfer is successful, it would delete the contents of the container. But that didn't stop the hard drive space from depleting. So I bought an external drive, transferred SuperContainer files there, and still my server hard drive space keeps on going down. Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Hi everyone, I'm having a big issue with Supercontainer that might have a quick and easy solution to it that I can't seem to figure out. I have a supercontainer field that stores an uploaded Word Doc in one directory named /files/ID/Docs/. Then, I have another supercontainer field that we currently upload a PDF version of the same Word Doc named /files/ID/PDFs/ The whole idea is to upload only the word document, and then hit a button in Filemaker that would then auto-generate the PDF version in the other folder. I guess I could get it done with AppleScript, but my concern is how would SuperContainer then realize that the PDF file is there when no one u…

I always struggle with web based integrations, no matter how well they are laid out. We have purchased SuperContainer and Docubin for some proof of concept trials. Out of the gate, I'd like to try a conservative hosting challenge (for us) of 10,000 images. It would be particularly awesome if there were some best practice advise I could get from the community! I have a FIleMaker 11 Advanced Server with WPE on a visualized WIndows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. I have a number of network attached storage options that I assume that I will want to leverage. Depending on how things go, we may need to try and purchase some time from experts on SuperContainer in a large enterpr…

Using the SuperContainer Companion Plugin both in FMP and IWP, I keep getting ERROR as result when using SCSetBaseURL. I run the exact same script and script step to do this. I use the version of the plug-in. I've tried in several different browsers. Please see my setup in attached screen shot. In lack of the Data Viewer in IWP I am setting some global temp fields to make sure my global variables have the correct values. Any ideas? Niklas

Yesterday my Office upgraded to Java 2.29.b11-402 on their Mac's and now anythime they go into a layout with a SuperContainer field, FM crashes. Tested my self. worked fine with Java 6.27, then upgraded and got same issue.

I'd like to create a webviewer that displays both an image(s) stored in SC and a text field(s) (this is an html email preview). Is this possible?

I am creating a database using SuperContainer (Demo Mode). All works well when using my client FMP, which has the SC Plugin installed, to access the database via FMS which is running the SC server. When I access the database using IWP which is being served from a my developer FMS machine, everything works except the Plugin related calculations. I do have the plugin installed in FMS and it is enabled. I understand that I will need an Enterprise license when I move my solution over to my clients FMS machine in order for SuperContainer to work using IWP. Would I be correct to say that until I have an installed Enterprise license for SuperContainer, that the plugin…

Hi All, Just want to verify if SuperContainer Workgroup license is all that is needed for the following: - the database will be hosted on FileMaker 11 Client - the database will be accessed by up to 5 Instant Web Publishing users I'd like to avoid my client purchasing the Workgroup license to find out that later on they need the Enterprise license (which is most likely out of their budget range). Thanks in advance!

i am using super container of demo version on mac system,the database is on fm server when i am using the super container the fm application crashes

I apologize for the newb question. My company has placed me in charge of updating our database in FM. I've mostly been learning FM as I go, but it's all gone remarkably well so far. I've now got a heavily modified version of RCC Recruiter up and running on FMS and users are currently only connecting through FMP11. Eventually we would like to set this up for web use, but it's not necessary at this point. The one thing that is really stumping me is the built in SuperContainer Lite. I have authorization to purchase Supercontainer (enterprise license) for our database, but I'm trying to figure out (1) if it's necessary and (2) how to make it work with our files. If I can…

Only change is updating to 2.831. The only option when I right click in web viewer is "Reload"? Webviewer: "http://" & GetHostIP & ":8020/SuperContainer/Files/360Demo/" & Documents::id & "?style=noupload+imageonly" I changed to: "http://" & GetHostIP & ":8020/SuperContainer/Files/360Demo/" & Documents::id & "?style=upload+imageonly" Can do upload but document does not stay in container when I leave the current layout. -Jeff

Hello everybody, We purchased a copy of SuperContainer and so far it is better than we could have imagined. We are however, running into an issue. The websites that are going to use this functionality need to be accessed by our customers. These customers are using proxy servers and firewalls, and blocking port 8020. In talking to the IT department at these customers, the only port that they will allow is port 80. Right now we have SuperContainer running on the same machine as our web server, which is an Apple Xserve. The question is: Is it possible to run the standalone version of SuperContainer, and have it listen on port 80. We need the standalone …

OK- I'm a relatively accomplished FM developer, but just implementing my first SuperContainer solution. I am pretty embarrassed to say, that I'm a little stumped as to how I can have SC remove files from its structure. I have been able to set up unique paths for each solution, add, update images, get files names (SCGetInfo) etc. But I'd like to make sure that SC is cleaning up after itself nicely as records are deleted (via FM scripts), but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to make SCDelete work. I haven't done a lot with External Functions - I'm good with making them be a part of calculations, but this one in particular, feels like it wants to be an actu…

Hello, I have SuperContainer installed on my remote FMS server (using installer.jar) and things are working nicely with the regular features (without plugin)on my hosted database. I have a standard license. I would like to utilize the plugin for its scriptable functions. These would be triggered by user interaction on remote client machines with the database hosted on the FMS, rather than scheduled server scripts. To utilize the plugin functions, should I install the plugin on each client's FMPro or should I install it on the FMServer, or both? Aplogies for my ignorance! Thanks Guy

Hello, I have been browsing this forum and found a lot of good tips but still haven't found a solution to my problem after deploying SuperContainer on our networked server. We are running FileMaker Server 9 (not advanced). Installation via the installer.jar went fine; can access supercontainer via browser and tested uploading images to a custom file path to a volume on the server - this is the ideal location of the stored files - i modified the web.xml doc, and also added permissions on the volume/folder for fmsadmin group and fmserver user. Is there something else i should be doing here? In the FM layout, the url in the webviewer is set to "http://ourserverIP:80…

I'd like to be able to move a second copy of the file Supercontainer is uploading to an additional server (web server in this case). Is it possible to have supercontainer make an API call as part of its upload process?

First, just wanted to say that we've been using SuperContainer successfully for over a year and have been extremely happy with it; it's a great solution and has singlehandedly enabled us to do systems in FileMaker that we otherwise would not have been able to do. I just updated our server to v2.831, which apparently changes things to HTML5 because of bugs in OS X. The effect that we've seen, however, is that when a user clicks on a PDF image in the SuperContainer webviewer field, it now opens the file in the user's browser rather than in the local copy of Adobe Reader. This change is a little disconcerting for the users, but they could always open it in Adobe Reade…

Can I set the SuperContainer to have noupload as the default style when accessing via URL? Can it be setup to where all uploads will come from the companion plugin only and not through URL? Just curious. Thanks.

Two Questions: 1)I have FileMaker Server 11 running on my server and also SuperContainer. I can run the SuperContainerServer.jar file and get SuperContainer running just fine. However, what do I need to do so that SuperContainer will start up automatically when the machine reboots? Currently, I have to go back into the folder where .jar file is stored and run it every time the machine is rebooted. FileMaker Server 11 starts up automatically for me but SuperContainer does not. 2) When SuperContainer is started, a window opens up on the server to let me know it is running and shows the files that are being uploaded, etc. When I try to close this window, …

I am finding that the Size of the JavaW.exe 32bit process running on Windows Server 2008 grows with every SuperContainer request, eventually growing to many hundreds of megabytes in size and slowing down dramatically. Killing the task and restarting SuperContainerSever.jar restores performance and starts the memory consumption growth anew. Anyone else seeing this? (I am using Firefox 7 to access an IWP solution running remotely on a Windows Server 2008, dedicated to FileMaker Server 11 Advanced and SuperContainer 2.82 Server.) Thank you for your feedback.

Hello all, I want to use SuperContainer along with Instant Web Publishing and am concerned about the security of the data hosted on SuperContainer. My initial plan is that an email will go out to a remote IWP user alerting them to log in and look at a file. The user would then navigate to our public website, log in via a standard FileMaker account through IWP, and be able to view a few records with SuperContainer web viewers showing the files we have uploaded for them. However, the data that would be hosted on SuperContainer is highly confidential stuff. Could anyone talk to me in general about why SuperContainer is safe or unsafe for this purpose? We are using …

Greetings- I finally got SC up and running in FM pro 11, and was able to use remote hosting to load the images i wanted from my main machine. When i went to my new machine, pulled up the FM database, the response i got from windows was that it was blocking SC from pulling into the webviewer, and the SC just had the image placeholder with the red X in the upper corner. I have looked at my firewall settings, and have allowed IE to have access through the firewall...am i missing something REALLY obvious? thanks in advance... Jesse

Our firm has purchased many copies of SuperContainer for our clients and it has been solid software. However, the application has alway been limited in scope in that the end users were our client's employees running SC within FMP. Recently we've been testing SC with IWP so that our client's clients could view images via IWP. It appears that for most Mac browsers the images will appear as expected the first time. However, out of six general use PCs, only one of them displayed images initially. The problem was either they had older versions of Java or there was some internal setting that prevented the images from appearing. Even once the PC's were configured properly, Expl…

Hello, wondering if anyone else has encountered this: I have a solution that is accesed via IWP, and when a Supercontainer field has a pdf, on a computer it works perfectly well to download the document. Some users have started accessing it on an ipad, and when they click the pdf icon, instead of it downloading and opening, it opens within the supercontainer field, and can't be scrolled, so only the top two-thirds of the first page can be read. Is there something I can change so that in iOS the user can read the pdf? Thanks in advance for any advice! James

I recently installed SuperContainer with Filemaker server on a mac mini running 10.7.2. Its been working great until today. Now when I SCSetBaseURL or any other command with the plug-in I get an error "java.lang.illegalargumentexception host name may not be null". SuperContainer is running as Server (not standalone). I've tried reinstalling SuperContainer, Java, restarting all to no avail. I can't find any other cases of this particular error here or anywhere related to SuperContainer. I do see it on pure Java boards but since I'm not a Java programmer...

Is it possible to select multiple files at once for uploading into SuperContainer?

Hi. I got a calc field that uses the GetInfo function to fetch a file name. Works fine in FMP, but when adding the file through Instant Web Publishing the calculation simply returns nothing. The plug-in is working server side. (The SCVersion returns 2.77 as expected.) Any suggestions? Rgds Niklas

I have SuperContainer running in a couple of solutions without issue. I'm in the process of adding another document storage library to one of those solutions, so I created a new table and copied the appropriate SC fields into the new table, then updated the calcs to point to the new fields and duped and updated the appropriate scripts. Everything was working fine until I logged out, then logged back in and the portals would show "Error" in the container field. I've verified all of the calcs in data viewer, then pasted the dataviewer calcs back into the field defs and the portals would show the icons correctly. As soon as I would log out and log back in, the portals woul…

When using the SCChooseFile Function followed by the SCSetContainer function I get random errors being generated. (I am using the plugin in the exact same fashion as in the example file.) I tested the problem using the SuperContainer Example File with the exact same results. This only occurs when using the companion plugin to upload files. I'm using the most recent version of Java, and SuperContainer v2.72 on Windows XP. One of the errors generated is: java.lang.NullPointerException: data must not be null. Thanks.

I'm using Supercontainer 2.82 on 15-20 computers. Now on the latest one I have installed (running Lion 10.7.1 and Filemaker 11) I get the error reproduced below. The Supercontainer Log simply says: An error occurred while handling request /SuperContainer/Files/20111004/C61CD601-97AD-BCD2-2BC8-0017F20F25F6?height=1537&width=1163,5&style=image_only in thread http-8020-Processor3 For input string: "1163,5" The same files display without any problems on all the other computers. Any hints on what may be the cause of the problem would be greatly appreciated. TIA Marc -------- HTTP Status 500 - type Excep…

When first showing a webviewer with SuperContainer am getting an Java Warning message: If I click on the More Information.. it says: What does this mean? Any way to prevent this message from showing? It does seem to work if I click yes or no to the message but annoying that it comes up each time. (Using SuperContainer 2.82 with Windows 2003 Server/IIS and FileMaker Server Advanced 11.0.2.217 )

My company has an established file system on a SAN where all of the client files are stored. We want to use SuperContainer to provide an easier way to open/view said files inside of FileMaker, especially with FMGo. We do not use container fields in the FileMaker solution, but rather store the full path name in a text field(s), and then have a button that uses the Open URL step that points to the appropriate text field to open said files. We're wanting to now replace this functionality with SuperContainer for several reasons, mainly being able to have a preview of the file and for ease when using FMGo. We don't want to change/convert the current file system …

This happens when the step is called in a filemaker script triggered through the xml api. It seems like any SC function will return the question mark. Weird thing is that the same script run via a fm console script schedule returns the version just fine. Both are running under the same filemaker user account. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm also getting this SC error output: 11 Oct 28, 2011 2:32:09 PM com.prosc.supercontainer.LogFilter doFilter 12 SEVERE: An error occurred while handling request /SuperContainer/Files/ in thread TP-Processor3 13 java.lang.NullPointerException 14 at com.prosc.supercontainer.web.KitchenSink.doGet(Ki…

Hello, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here but I can't seem to get this right. I keep on getting credentials error. I setup my SuperContainer on to our server running SSL and edited the web.xml to put a username and password. I've tested my URL using webviewer on a layout and pass on the credentials and it works. Like so... "https://domain.com/SuperContainer/Files/Sample?username=superman&password=batman" If I copy and paste that address and on to my browser directly, it works also. But then when I use the same credentials to set the base URL to use the companion plugin, it doesn't work.. SCSetBaseURL ("https://domain.com/SuperCont…

Can someone tell me how to change the location where the files are stored in an iis deployment of supercontainer on win server 2003 and fmpsa 11? TIA KRis

Hi i have a growing database with High Res Jpegs (600kb-1.5mb) per jpeg with a potential of every record having up to 18 jpegs stored NOT AS REFERENCE.. my goal is to keep my database small and i'm wondering if the Super container can help with resizing the image and putting the original on a different location outside the database. thanks

From documentation: There are several ways to upload files to SuperContainer. The simplest is to drag a file or directory onto the SuperContainer window, which immediately uploads the file, displaying a progress bar during the upload process. This does not happen ? What I am doing wrong If you are looking at a SuperContainer URL which has no file uploaded to it, by default an "Upload file" button is displayed. You can use this button or right-click/ctrl-click to display a file chooser dialog. Select a file or directory to upload and click "OK", which then uploads the file, displaying a progress bar during the upload process. This works fine. I…

I've got SuperContainer installed on a Windows 2003 server running the FM Web Publishing Engine (FMSA). Works great. I'm now wanting to change the default folder to a network area that needs specific user privileges. Am I presuming correctly that under this setup that SuperContainer is running as a windows service? If so, what is the name of the service and can I change the user it runs under? If not, what user IS this running under? In short, I need to either change the user that this runs under or add the 'default' user to our domain user's list so that the SuperContainer program can access a specific file area on out network.

Request for Proposal American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education, a small, Colorado-based, 501c3 charitable organization, seeks FileMaker and web hosting. Specifications: 1. Host one small FileMaker database. Low traffic. 2. Host aiare.info web site with domain name and PHP-Filemaker CWP. Low traffic. 3. Host SuperContainer by 360Works for AIARE documents library. Initial library size will be approximately 2gb and may grow to 10gb. 4. Host SSL certificate for AIARE shopping cart; allow encrypted transmission of credit cards to authorize.net. 5. Provide usual backup services; ability to download FileMaker backups; FTP access to web fil…

Can you open super container excel (.xlsx) files using FMGO on the IPad? What about Word (.docx) files? We were able to open PDFs but not .xlsx files.

I installed and have been running SuperContainter fully integrated to FM server for a client on a Mac server which we tested and is running fine on our network and now theirs. For occasional use I am connecting via a no-ip.com address but using host:80/SuperContainer is bringing up the logon to their router which is quite locked down so I interested in chaging the outward facing port (like 8020) so I can get a hole put in the firewall. Is there any documentation on how to do this easily??

Greetings. I'm running FMSA 11 and Supercontainer 1.0 on Snow Leopard Server. My client is blocking the default port (8020) so I need to change the port to 80 or 443 (preferred). When I changed the port to 443 or 80 and restarted SC, I got an error message: Could not start/stop SuperContainer: Protocol handler initialization failed: java.net.BindException: Permission denied:80 Protocol handler initialization failed: java.net.BindException: Permission denied:80 How do I set permissions to allow this? Can I use port 443 for added security since this is by default used for https access? I'm having a tough time finding any documentation or previous h…

Hello, Does this "SuperContainer is simple to install on your FileMaker Server" mean that SC will run on Filemaker Server - not Advanced - or is Advanced a requirement for a server deployment? The server in question runs FMS 11 on OS x 10.7.1 Stephen

Even when I use the height and width parameters in the URL description, scroll bars continue to appear in Windows browsers. Not Mac browsers. In the attached image the image has been made very small, but the vertical scroll bar is still visible. For some reason when I scroll down there is always an icon of a page that seems. Any ideas how to resolve this? Thank you for helping me keep my sanity, Will

Good day, I have a FileMaker solution that utilizes SuperContainer to hold attachments that are linked to specific jobs. When we first implemented SC, we attached the items to the job rather than the customer, and have since realized that attaching them to the customer is the better way to handle it. For example, attachments are now held in a folder "/job/type_of_attachment/job_number/attachment_id/filename.pdf" I'd like to move those files so that they're held by customer (in a different table). So I'd like the file path to change to "customer/customer_number/type of attachment/attachment_id/filename.pdf" Really all that's changing is the path n…

I am passing a local variable : $ParamFileName (see screen shot 1) to SCSetContainer that is populated with data ( in this example: /Gator Zone/Users/jhaskel/Desktop/09_08_11HemmittStacie.pdf ) that was passed as a script result from another script. Set Variable [$Result ; Value SCSetContainer( Documents::SuperContainerFolderPathFile ; $ParamFileName ) It is returning the error "folderpath must not be empty". If I hard code with the actual script result in this example: (/GatorZone/Users/jhaskel/Desktop/09_08_11HemmittStacie.pdf ), It works perfectly. You can see in the data viewer (screen shot 2) that $ParamFileName is populated with the correct path.…

We have a problem where a SuperContainer window is an active layout and JAVA does not always start for All Users on a Windows XP PC with Java 1.6.0.18 to 1.6.0.22. For some users it works correctly and on the same PC it does not work for other users. We are using SuperContainer on the FM Server Advanced 11 with the current SuperContainer Version: 2.792. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can make JAVA load when a SuperContainer is present on the active layout for all users Thanks, Mark

Hello, The images in the webviewer look crisp, but when I save them to PDF they become blurry and unusable. How can I save the images to a PDF file without changes of the resolution? - I am running FM11 Pro in a local network (with my iMac as server). - Webviewer style: "?style=noapplet+left+noscroll+nodelete"

Hello, I have a medical notes program that I wrote in Filemaker. The following are the steps I need to perform (using FMP10 with Server 11 on Lion OSX clients are macbook pro 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3 gb ram) 1. I need to print a pdf from filemaker field to a folder (which of course is no problem) for a specific visit date. 2. I need to append any pdf documents in the supercontainer that are related to that date to the pdf file I printed in step 1. Any ideas? Tjhanks, Jeff

Database is shared using FMPro 10. When accessing remote (outside network using FMP) Supercontainer webviewers do not show images. It is blank. I'm assuming that is because the web address field setup in my container doesn't contain the address. I don't even know if this is supported. How do I format the address to show images when remotely accessing outside the local network? Here is the coding that works on the local network: "http://" & "10.0.1.200:8020/" & "/SuperContainer/Files/" & "Production01" & "/" & Sales Orders::Invoice ID & "?style=info+noupload" Thanks

I'm trying to upload some files using a FileMaker script scheduled on the server. I'm getting an odd error though. Here are the details: ERROR MESSAGE: Error uploading file. java.lang.IllegalStateException: SCPluginModel#setResource must be called from the EDT DESTINATION PATH: attachments/000091 SOURCE_PATH: /tmp/mailmate_downloads/34/CIMG0257.JPG FILE SIZE: 78606336 SystemVersion: 10.6.8 (OS X) Java Version: java version "1.6.0_15" Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03-219) Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.1-b02-90, mixed mode) SuperContainer version 2.81 SuperContainer Companion Plugin version 2.81 (in .../Database Se…

I have an issue re-installing SC (v2.792) on a Vista Business 2007 machine (SP2, Java SE6 update 27). Installer ran successfully, restarted FMS10, even rebooted the machine, but when I go to localhost/SuperContainer I get the message that I choose to open a downloaded application or open it with a browser. I have never seen this before, is it a recent browser security thing, a certificate issue, or something even more exotic? (same routine occurs when opening in other browsers). I have full admin access to this machine. Any advice would be welcomed, TIA Peter

Hello all, just came across a huge Problem. For months now I had FMSA & SuperContainer 2 running smooth on one Win 2008 with Plesk Panel. Last night FMSA was having trouble with IIS and I had to let FMSA reconfigure IIS with the result that I now SuperContainer only works locally. Any Idea where I need to look? Oh I forgott: The User now gets an error 404 - page not found

When files are selected for uploading using SuperContainer Companion plugin, it quietly takes any "file" that is a package/bundle in Mac OS X (essentially, directories that are treated as single files) and zips them. The problem is that when you use the function SCDownload in the plugin to allow the user to export/save a local copy of the file, it does not transparently decompress the ZIP file. Instead, they are presented with a file that is different than what was uploaded. I'm planning on a work-around where we store the real file extension upon upload. Then, when they click our scripted Export button, we will present them with a "Save" dialog that has the n…

Currently we have SuperContainer standalone set up on one of our Xserves, so we have a user logged in running SuperContainer. Is there a way to set up SuperContainer so that we don't have to keep the user logged in?

Hi, I am fairly new to FM (and even more so to scripting). Therefore I am glad that I was able get Supercontainer running at all and to migrate 2000 images to the supercontainer via the recommended script (and my first working loop ). - Filemaker 11 Pro/ Mac OS Lion - Location of the images: "http://localhost:8020/SuperContainer/Files/obj_obj/" - Webviewer calc: "http://" & "localhost:8020" & "/SuperContainer/Files/" & "obj_OBJ" & "/" & obj_OBJ::_pkObject Anyway, I have two problems: 1) Images are not showing up in portals. What is wrong in the non stored calc field for the portal? SCGetContainer("http//:localhost:8020/superco…

I want to convert a solution to SuperContainer but two of the tables currently have containers that store pictures and drawings. One table has two container fields and one has three. Will SuperContainer work for this and how would I export to SuperContainer. -Jeff

We are running FMS Advanced on Windows Server 2008 and have SC installed using the Server method. We recently wanted to re-do that FMS deployment to have a separate machine handling the IWP/web portion of our solutions. We were eventually able to relink all our SC webviewers by pointing to the new server handling the web stuff. One piece we have not been able to figure out is the Auto-Update for SC plugins. Can you help me understand how to have the Auto Update scripts in the databases check with the FM database server (where the plugins are correctly installed in Auto Update) and not the new FM web server? It seems that while it was all a single machine d…

Inserting a file into SC crashes FM11 in Win 7 on at least one PC on the LAN. The file does get saved, and is available to other users of the database, but this user must reload FM11. There was a crash report - A fatal error has been detected in the Java Runtime Environment. EXCEPTION ACCESS VIOLATION. Problematic Frame: Filemaker Pro.exe+0x2e094b Want the whole 5 page report? Also, a different user is getting the error on startup that Java 1.5 should be installed. He claims he installed it, but still gets the error. Any fixes? Thanks!

Hi- When using the SCChooseFile function of the companion plug in, you can specify an initial path. Can the same thing be done in the web viewer when using the browse button that appears for uploading when the web viewer is empty? Thanks, Phil

In the following environment, client machines stopped returning the SCVersion nr: FMP11v3 Windows XP 2002 SP3 FMServer 11.03.309 is on WindowsServer 2008 R2 SuperContainer v2.81, running smoothly When the server is approached from an FMP instance on the server machine itself, SCVersion gives the proper number. On client machines in the same LAN, the plugin evaluates correctly from the Preference Menu as Tab plugins in FileMaker, but strangely enough the Autocalc field GetValue ( SCversion ; 1 ) returns a question mark. Since it works from a local FMP and fresh clones from the UI files did not help, I assume the External CustomFunction is not co…

Hi, we just bought supercontainer and are trying to get it to work. our filemaker server is hosted. We have many things working but not the SCGetContainer function. We did a new calculation field with SCGetContainer(''http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8020/SuperContainer/Files/360Demo/2''; 64;64) and put this container field on the layout but all it returns is ? what are we doing wrong ? is it a proxy, firewall or something like that error ? thanks

I am pretty new to mac and FM. Used to work with MS Access. Now I'm building a small application with FM 11 adv and used SC to uppload files for the users in IWP. Thera are only 1 or 2 users online at the same time. So far I used only the SC demo. On my mac everything works fine, now I tested the app on an other mac but the webviewer field is empty?! On windows it says in the webwiever "the browser can't find the page". Do I need to install SC on my mac or what is wrong? Is IWP only supported if running on FM server and not on FM pro adv.?? Thanks for any support Claude

Has anyone successfully convinced SuperContainer to render pdfs on an OSX Server 10.6 running Java 6? I referred to the workaround that suggested running SuperContainer via Java 5 rather than Java 6; but on my system I no longer have access to the Java 1.5. I am guessing that it is the incompatablity between SuperContainer and Java 6 and CoreImage tha is causing the problem. thanks

Hi all, I've struggled with this for a while now: I have an IWP site set up that will display a PDF stored in a supercontainer field. To achieve this, I have a filemaker web viewer set up that points to the RAW data of the PDF stored in the supercontainer field. This solution works very well when accessed using any web browser. It even works when accessed using Safari on an iPad; the first part of the PDF is displayed properly. But the problem is: I can't scroll anywhere. The iPad scroll function scrolls the entire page rather then just the PDF; I can not get to the second page of a multi-page PDF file, I can not zoom in, I can not move anywhere with…

When I right-click the contents of a SuperContainer to save the contents to my HD, the save-as dialog box shows the file name but no extension. I can see the file extension when I look at the original document that SC points to. I have uploaded new files with various extensions to test this and it is consistent. JPG's PDF's, even ZIP files created by dropping multiple items onto the SC zone of my layout. Am clueless why this has started to happen. Advice? Thanks a ton- Michael San Francisco NOTE: SC version 2-792; all OS X 10.6.x updates. Haven't tried this on the windows side yet. ALSO: using scripts to pull the SC file into a conta…

When dragging a file onto the Super Container object that already has a file, it gives the option to Cancel or Delete. Could you add 'Combine'? This then would combine (compress/zip) it with the existing file. This would save the client having to extract the existing file and then adding both the old and new file back in. It would also save on having to add extra SC drop objects to the layout.

Hi, I get the following message in Filemaker. FMP is running on Windows Server 2008 Terminal Service. And I also always getting this Can someone help me here?

Hi, I'm new to SC. Is it possible to install SC on our Windows server 2008 while running FMS on our mac server? Should I use a standalone installation or use tomcat to run the application? Thanks

Hi I have a client that I put SuperContainer into last year, they were insistant on using solely PC servers and .pdf files (you guessed it they are now fed up of having to view them via the Acrobat viewer so want to change to MacMini for the picture storage) Question - obviously the files are easy to move from one machine to the other and preserve the folder hierarchy, but what is the best way to generate the thumbnails which of course don't exist on the Windows server, is there a way to generate the thumbnail file structure without having to go through every record they have created and doing a reinsert? Regards Mike Wyatt

FM Server 11 hosts a database, with Supercontainers stored on the same server. When I log in remotely from outside the LAN using FMP 11, I cannot see the contents of supercontainers. We plan to add iPad access with FMGo, will we be able to view the SC's with that? What do we need to do to make this info visible from outside the network?

Hi all, We are using the latest version of SuperContainer, 2.792 with Mac OS 10.6.8 with all Java updates installed. FM Server is v10. I've noticed a significant speed difference in SC when applying the noapplet style. If I click through records on a layout that has say 4 SCs on it, using the applet, all four areas will display a message "Connecting to SuperContainer Server...", then after 5 to 6 seconds, the images will finally load (see attached image). However, if I switch the SCs to noapplet, the images load instantaneously as I cycle through the records. Is the java applet that much slower, or is there something I can do to speed that up? …

Hi all, I'm having trouble formatting SuperContainer the way I want. I've got a 64x48px thumbnail in a list view. For files other than PDFs and images, a truncated table with filename, size, upload date is visible. No matter what I try I can't get the non images and PDF files to stop showing an info table. I attached a screen shot where you can see what I mean. The correctly displaying PDFs use fields - it's not data coming from SuperContainer. Non PDFs and images show the truncated table. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Chris

I have a web viewer setup following the directions at 360works.com: "http://yourServer.com:8020/SuperContainer/Files/Asset/" & myTable::ID Uploading/downloading files is works like a charm. I'm trying to customize some of SuperContainers appearance. My formatting of the web address in the web viewer doesn't seem to work: "http://yourServer.com:8020/SuperContainer/Files/Asset/" & myTable::ID?style=nopreview The example already accounts for the name uploaded being in the path. how do you account for that when there is a calculation in the path name?

Environment: Snow Leopard Server, Filemaker Sever Advanced 11, Lasso 9 Installation... followed instructions for installing instructions for filemaker server advanced. Seems like it is working. Can go to http://serveraddress/supercontainer and I get a webpage. Deployment: What I want to do is work within a Filemaker environment not WPE if that makes sense. I am sharing the SuperContainer Example by adding the database to the Filemaker Server and opening in the SErver Admin Console. I have installed the plugin on the Filemaker client 11. When I open the remote example database I get the error " This action cannot be performed because this file is no…

I'm using the standalone version of SuperContainer, v2.792 on a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 machine. Installed and configured just fine and running as expected. Until I restart the program or reboot the machine. After that point it gives the following error message when starting SuperContainer - "Cannot run SuperContainer Server: java.lang.runtimeexception: logging directory is not writeable, please verify that the Files folder is in a folder SuperContainer can write to." Apparently others have come up with this problem as well - http://attic.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/217642/ I checked the permissions on the folder C:\Users\Administ…

I would like to know the best way to import multiple pdfs that are in a folder on my desktop to a portal that contains a supercontainer, such that each portal line has one of the pdf's in it. Thanks for your all help. Regards, Jeff

Sometimes (on a Mac) flicking through records that have a SuperContainer on it I get a java.lang.nullpointerexception unexpected error. Sometimes you can see it flick up and then disappear other times you have to click ok. It seems to be when you quickly click through records. What causes this? Can I stop this showing?

I can't seem to figure out the proper syntax for an unstored calculation field that gives me the always current file path to a supercontainer. David says there is an easy way to query it, but I can't see how to do it without simply providing it everything I already know - therefore I am not asking it, I'm telling it! Can give me a quick detail about that? Thanks.