SuperContainer by 360 Works

How can I avoid to save/upload and image as "untitled.pict" in SuperContainer and assign a real name? Thanks

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I just upgraded a client from FM 6 to FM 10, and want to transfer the container data. I've used SetContainerData(FolderName/Table::RecordID; Table::Container Field). Theoretically, that should work. However, the files are being saved by the SuperContainer plug-in as jpgs, even though they are not. I also tried naming the files with the plug-in parameter, but I was not able to open them. (When I double-click on the container, they open right away in Word.) How do I export all this container data so that it will be usable by SuperContainer? What is going wrong?

I've tried all sorts of combination of style modifiers but I still get a black line under my images. What do I need to do go make it go away?

Is there a way to assign a button to "Open file in Browser" option that is accessable by right-clicking on a Supercontainer ?

A quick question. I am practicing with the latest version (2.5) The Demo, unregistered yet, but unable to upload files using IWP remotely. It says " For security reasons, you can not upload files remotely" : Is this my FMP server 10 setting or is this the Supercontainer server setting ?? any help is appreciated. I am playing around with the example file provided in the dowload "SuperContainer Example" . My FMS is 10, on mac. My remote machine is Windows XP. I am using IWP to access the DB to upload files. Thank you in advance.

I have a script which uses the SuperContainer plugin to delete an uploaded file (SCDelete) and one to store the name of an uploaded file in a FMP field (SCGetInfo). Everything works swimmingly on a FMP 9 client with the local plugin, but neither works over IWP. SCDelete doesn't do anything and SCGetInfo just produces a "?" which makes me think there's a problem with my installation of the plugin on the FMP server. We're running SuperContainer 2.58 plugin on Windows FMP Server 9.0.3.325. The plugin is stored in Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerWeb Publishingpublishing-enginewpcPlugins. I even tried restarting the FMP server after copying the plugin which I …

I am using SC to store documents related to equipment. I want to be able to delete a document record AND the SC file from a script. Can someone point me in the right direction as to the scripting steps? I am using the plugin and SCDelete seems to hold the answer, just not sure of the steps. Thanks in advance for your help - Dan

Is there any way to allow users access to the web viewer for document attaching and downloading, but have a layer of security in place to disable a users ability to delete a file? It seems that the I could use the plugin to accomplish what I need, but I am hoping to avoid adding portals and other supporting logic. Any thoughts?

Hello, I had a hard drive failure. After re-installing Mac OS Server 10.5.8 and FMP Server Advanced 10.0.1.64 I'm unable to get SuperContainer to install. I'm allowing the server to use plugins. They show in the list, but won't load. When trying to launch SuperContainerServer.jar I get the following error: cannot run SuperContainerServer: java.io.IOException: Couldn't get lock for /Users/Shared/SuperContainer/SuperContainer.log I can see the log file. I have tried versions 2.05 and 2.56. Both give me the same errors. Apparently Java is having some kind of problem, but I don't know how to fix it. Thanks in advance, Lisa

Hello, i hope i didn´t miss an answer to it elsewhere: As i understand it supercontainer does only show the first file in a folder. I have a huge collection of images stored in a fixed folder-structure (up to 200 images per folder). What can i do to access these images with supercontainer inside FM without changing the folder-structure?

Hi, After watching the demo video on using the plug-in, I was working on a script to upload a single document from an existing container field to the Supercontainer on the 360works server. Even with the "Reload" step, the document didn't appear in the Supercontainer, and my Filemaker menus were grey (inactive) after running the script. Solution: As drrehak noted in another thread at http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/209829/, adding a step: "View as Form" to my Filemaker solution handled it so that the document appeared in the Supercontainer and the menus were active again. :-) Doug Hogg

Can't seem to get rid of the delete option from the context menu. I use the nodelete style option and that removes the button, but users coming in via IWP can still right click and delete. Any thoughts? Thanks, Scott

I'm in the process of developing a solution in FM10, and am running SuperContainer in stand-alone mode on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.7. The Upload does button does not work most of the time, and the Contextual menus to delete, upload, etc also do not show up. Anyone else experienced this? Thanks,

Hello - Using SuperContainer, how can I display a PDF's image in a Web Viewer? When I replace "Files" with "RawData" in the URL, it works *if* a file is present; if no file is present, it displays an error message.

Hi. I am trying to get SuperContainer to download a file to my desktop using the SCDownload function of the plugin. The prototype calls for a folderPath parameter. I cannot understand what that value is. In your documentation for SC, and example is: Set Variable[$folderPath; Value: Get ( LayoutTableName ) & "/" & ID] That just puts the Filemaker table name into the variable. It's not a path to an SC file. In the demo FM file, "SuperContainer Example.fp7," the folderPath gets a field cResourceIdentifier, which has the calc ""360Demo/" & id". Is that 360Demo folder supposed to be inside the Files folder of SC (/Users/Shared/SuperContainer/FIles)? I…

FMP 10A on Vista. SuperContainer v2. When first going to a layout which has a webviewer which uses SuperContainer to view a file, the record is in a "pseudo frozen state". For example, if I perform a find for a record, after successfully executing the find, I would like to press the tab key to begin tabbing through fields and layout objects. However, if the layout displays a webviewer, I need to first click on the record, outside a field, to "re-commit" the record. Then I can tab away. If I remove the Supercontainer webviewer object, I can find a record then begin tabbing as per normal. If I apply the style parameter to the SuperContainer file path: style=n…

Hi, I have a solution where the webviewer url is a calculation pointing to an image on the server. I have a script to upload a new image, and based on a placeholder field, it should change the webviewer. I cant get it to change (update) unless switching to Edit Layout mode and back to Browse mode. any ideas? I have tried reload, reset in scripts. I can manually enter the placeholder field and change the flag, but that still doesnt update the webviewer. Like I said, it only changes when editing the layout and returning to Browse. thanks in advance!

Hi I have just begun working with super container and could do with some ideas about how to approach the urls/data structure for my project. I am building a job application app where the user (via the web) fills in an application form and can then upload multiple documents in support of there application. Each application would have an ID. I would imagine that you would then create related records, one for each document which would be linked to the application record using the ID. The second part of the process would involve administrators reviewing the applications and being able to see/download all of the uploaded documents related to the application. I would norm…

Hi, I'm trying to work SuperContainer into a FM list view, and I'd like it to snow a small (15 x 15 px, maybe?) icon if there is a file uploaded for that record, and nothing if there is not. Can anyone help with this? Thanks!

Hi Guys, I am receiving "java.lang.outofmemoryerror java heap space" when trying to preview large uploaded files. I have looked at the wiki in the 'Out Of Memory' section and cannot find the files at the specified location i.e. Library/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/bin/catalina.sh. We are running Server 9 Advanced on OS X Server 10.5.7. Have the java file locations changed since the wiki was written? I would be very grateful if anyone could shed any light on increasing the memory size of super container in 10.5.7. Many Thanks Robin

hi -- i'm trying to write a script to email an attachment of a file that I stored with Supercontainer. if the table related to the document I have stored is called Document, here is my script: Set Variable [ $result; Value:SCDownload("Document/" & DOC:_pk_DocumentID ; Get (DesktopPath)) ] The I use the Send Mail via SMTP Server step and I write this in the Attachment section: Attachment: “file:$result” Any ideas on what I doing wrong?

Hi, we're ready to roll out our first SuperContainer-enabled website however we're having an issue when the a user scrolls down a web page. SC is continually refreshing the web viewer which holds the JPEG for viewing. The end result is that it looks like the JPEG is flickering when the page is being scrolled. Has anyone ran into this? Thanks!

I've just been playing around with SuperContainer for the first time... looks great... I'm trying to get my head around the SuperContainer PHP class for use with CWP. Am I correct in thinking that if I include() the PHP/supercontainer.php file in my PHP script, then I do not need to have installed the companion plug-in? The plug-in is a separate beast from any use of the PHP api, right? There is an explanation in one part of the *plug-in documentation* about how to install the plug-in for use with CWP. But in the PHP documentation, there is no mention of the plug-in. Thanks for any comments or insights regarding SC and PHP. Greg Smith

Good Evening. I've had SC running very well (in house) through several version updates, across several databases since October of 2008. Suddenly, about two weeks ago, *some* of our users (we're spread around town on a WAN through several buildings) told me they were suddenly getting the message: "You are not authorized to view this page. The web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list. HTTP Error 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected. Internet Information Services (IIS)." (and some other boilerplate) …

Before getting SuperContainer, a developer had set up a system for us where we uploaded documents via a website, copied the URL, pasted the URL in our FM database, and we could display the *image* of that document in a WebViewer. (WebViewer is pretty awesome with documents; if it's a PDF, you can zoom, rotate, etc.) SuperContainer is a much easier upload process, but I'd like the option of displaying the document image in the database. Why does SuperContainer only display an image of the document name and file type?

Hello - I started using SuperContainer and the SuperContainer PlugIn. It works great on the copy of Filemaker on our server. Users can upload and can see the SuperContainer uploads via the Web Viewer, but when I'm displaying the Container Field (using the PlugIn), they cannot see the uploaded file -- just a question mark. Are they supposed to have the PlugIn on their computer to make this work? Or what else could I be missing? We are not using FileMaker Server.

i am having trouble getting started with SuperContainer. i opened SuperContainerServer.jar with no problem on a local mac and a local pc. but i can't open it on our Virtual Private Server (VPS). on the VPS it seems to just keep thinking the .jar file is Zipped/compressed on the desktop of the VPS, i open the folder: 360Works_SuperContainer-2_272 i doubleclick on: SuperContainerServer.jar it asks if i want to Open or Save this file (at this point the image of the file has a zipper on it.) if i say Open, it says: Do you want to save this file? once i've saved it and try to Open it, it asks me if i want to Save it.…

Hello, I have SuperContainer installed on FMSA9. Due to an archaic version of Java to be the standard deployment in my organization, I need to run in noapplet mode. Everything works fine, except the user is not able to delete a file once uploaded. The documentation seems to suggest a delete button should be appearing in noapplet mode. It is not. Is it possible to create a custom button to tell SuperContainer to delete a file? I don't seem much in the minimal documentation.

I have used SC sucessufully doing revisions by keeping one field in a parent table which tracks how many revisions are related to the record. That has working really well. My next challenge is having fields that store information about each revision such as booleans. Ideally having related child records where each record contains the information for the supercontainer URL and the data about that image in the same record would be best. Reading the documentation about portals leads me to believe this is not possible. I really want to avoid using filemaker container fields if possible. Any ideas or example files for how to proceed? Thanks, Drew

Hello. I have installed FileMaker Server 9 (not Advanced) and it seems to be working properly and delivering our databases to users of FileMaker Pro 9. However, we are in an environment where it was thought best not install the Web Publishing functionality of FileMaker Server. We would like to install SuperContainer with FileMaker Server so both applications start and run automatically without anyone being logged directly into the server. That brings up my questions: 1) Does an installation of SuperContainer depend on FileMaker Server's web publishing capabilities or does it simply install itself in the Tomcat folder, even if that is not being used by the FileMa…

I know from a post last month that scripting SC requires the use of External Functions, but I would really appreciate a little more help to get me started. Specifically, I need to write a script which when run copies the contents of a SC web viewer to another SC web viewer in the same record, overwriting anything already there if necessary. Any information to point me in the right direction would be great. Thanks. Colin

Hi! I'm new to supercontainer and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I need to upload about 1000+ images to my fmp image file on a quarterly basis. I read in another post that you can import the images to a container field and then convert them to SuperContainer images via the plug-in but is there any other way? With so many images I am concerned about performance with that process--i.e. I don't want to load up container fields in that table. Even if someone knows how I can reference a temp_image file and convert those images?? Thanks for any suggestions you have! P.S. Client is still on FM9/FMS9 on Windows

I'm considering developing a drag and drop interface for importing information from excel. From reading at 360works, it seems like I can get the file name for this automatic import using the SCGetInfo command in the plugin. However, they describe setting up a 'continue' button or the like to trigger getting this info. I don't have FM10 yet, though will likely be getting it very soon, and I'm curious if in FM10 you can trigger a script from dropping the file in the web viewer? This would eliminate the need for having to click the button, and I could just check for valid information through the triggered script. It's not a big deal to set up the button, it would j…

Having an issue that I was sure must be down to my router (Dratek 2820), but having done extensive testing I can't resolve. Very simply, outside on my domain I cannot see any (SuperContainer) images when using IWP. Local domain no problem. I don't even see the 'upload' button if no images are in the viewer. Otherwise everything works as expected. I did a straightforward install clicking on the install jar. Web services are enabled on the Server. Anyone out there point me in the right direction? Cheers Tim Anderson Anyone save me a

I'm trying to download a set of images onto the desktop and I can't figure out how to rename the files as they're downloaded. The plugin documentation mentions optional "flag" parameters, but I can't find information on how to implement them. I've tried adding an extra parameter, filename=$name, but that gets rejected as having too many parameters.

I have purchased SuperContainer and installed (the SuperContainer Plugin) and find that when I open and choose one of the scripting options that there are NO SC... type scripts available. I have reloaded the plugin in the Filemaker 10 Advanced extension folder and restarted Filemaker again - with no luck. No 'SC' type script steps are missing. Therefore, the question is... what did I do wrong. It should be so simple?

SuperContainer running on server works fine, contents visible in FMP. When companion plug-in is installed, FMP crashes when a layout containing a SuperContainer object is selected. Any help appreciated - thanks.

I just downloaded and installed SC 2.2. I had 2.1.6 running in this same configuration before this time. I installed by moving the new SuperContainer folder into the Tomcat webapps directory. Server is the Tomcat option (6.0.18) under OS X 10.4.11 (latest updates). I can see the SuperContainer page when I use the http://10.x.x.x:8080/SuperContainer URL. When I go down below this point in the file structure (e.g. SuperContainer/Registration), I get a Server Error 500, and a Java error: java.lang.NullPointerException (there are several more lines - glad to post if it will help). I have added my registration to the web.xml file. I have also tried removing the …

I am testing SC Server for a client running on a Windows 2003 Server. They gave me limited access so I can function directly on the server. SC Server runs fine. However, when I log off, it appears that the SC Server also stops. How do I get the SC Server to be persistent and run no matter who logs into the physical box. I know that the SC Server log window needs to be visible to know that it's running. Does the SC jar need to be launched by someone logged in with full admin rights?

Hello All, I am in the process of building an CWP Solution that will utilize Supercontainer. I have 4 SC viewers that are all working perfectly. 1 for an image and 3 for documents. The Issue I am running into is this. For the Web I will have links to the 3 documents. It all works fine when there is actually a document, but when there is not I get a Filemaker Server Error. Which is understandable, there is NO Document there. So I am thinking of some logic that I can use to determine if there is something there and if not disable the link. My thought was to get the Raw URL path and then evaluate it. But How would I go about that? Thanks for any …

I have installed the latest SCplugin (2.262) on clients that were still on v1.865. (Windows XP, FMP9) The old plugins were removed from the extensions folder and replaced with the new, but when looking in FileMaker preferences, the version still reads 1.865, which keeps kicking in my automated version installer Is there a pref file somewhere that I can delete so that it reads the new version properly? TIA, Peter

On some window computers I get a solid black overlay in my webviewer when I allow the applet. If I tell the webviewer noapplet the image appears (but no drag N drop). I was using Java 6_0_11. I disabled 6_0_11 and I'm now running 6_0_7. Recommended by FileMaker, At least for the Admin Console. Any Ideas? My Client is a all windows based environment.

Hi there, I^m new to this forum and the Supercontainer as well. I hope that this question hasn^t been posted very often: Is there an easy way to get a external image (for example http://www.foreignserver.com/image1.jpg) into the Supercontainer and resize it to a certain width and height ? Thank you so much for a quick help, Frank

The SC documentation says So this does not sound very secure. What is the best way to secure access to the documents inside SC ? Is there a way that is more secure than that described above ?

I can never seem to get SC to resize an image for viewing in a Web Viewer. For example, if the WV is defined as such: Global::gDocument_BaseURL & "Contact/Headshot/" & Person::PersonID & "height=" & GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "mug" ; "height" ) - 2 & "&width=" & GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "mug" ; "width" ) - 2 & Case(IsEmpty(Person::gPictureEdit); "&style=readonly" ) I can upload images, see them, delete them, etc. And yes I've double checked that the Web Viewer does indeed have that object name. But the images always retain their original size and get cropped in my small WV on the layout. Any s…

I'm just starting to play with the demo to see if it will work for my solution - I'm pretty darn sure it will just don't know how to do it. Here's the situation: Want to store scanned copies of forms to a db. The problem is that each patient will have multiple forms and in some cases multiple copies of each form. Directory Structure so far: .../Patients/[PatientID]/Forms .../Patients/[PatientID]/Letters Here's the logic I'm working under so far: Can't use WebViewer as each patient will have multiple images so I need to resort to the portal method. First off, if this is an incorrect assumption, please tell me what I'm missing. Since SC only prefer…

Just started playing with the demo. I noticed the "batch" import is run with a script that automatically appends a new director (1, 2, .....) to the path. Not a problem to edit that for my purposes. The problem is that if I use the "Upload" button that is in the WebViewer, it does the same thing but I can't seem to find a script for that. What am I missing?

Is there a way to allow a user to click on the image in a portal view and have it open or is this something that is only allowed in the web viewer? The one workaround that I've found is to script an OpenURL to the cFileURL when the user clicks on the image in the portal. This opens the image in their web application using SC and then the user can click on it from there to actually open it with whatever application is necessary.

I have a database I've been using for testing SuperContainer and it works OK with SC 1.857. I recently downloaded SuperContainer 2.2 and find the upload buttons do not appear in the web viewer that is set to the SuperContainer URL. All I get is a little black rectangle with a red X in the middle. I can however download files from the database using SC 2.2. I'm running this on a Windows XP Pro computer, with FileMaker 9. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, I downloaded SuperContainer and was able to install it in my Database easily. However, I need to display the image in my filemaker based website. Current code: Replacing 'Files' with 'RawData' works fine but using the link with 'Files' gives me a 1 pixel wide rect where the Applet launches. Also I cannot Upload/Download/Delete the file. Am I missing something? I saw there a PHP API but I wasn't able to get that to work either. If someone could just point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance. BradDS

so, I have a solution where I download a supercontainer file(jpeg) locally, edit it with MSpaint, and then reload it. My main problem is the thumbnail is not changing. When I look at the server side file, the original thumbnail file is still there. I am using version 1.851. I then tried to delete the supercontainer file, before uploading new file. Supercontainer server shows "Deleting ..... initiated by user" but the file is still there! I try reloading the webviewer, and it still shows the original thumbnail. The weird thing is that I can hit the delete button several times, and the reload button several times, and it will finally go through. …

Hello guys, today I changed the pdf.gif file located on images folder and after that I get: Unable to load preview for this item javax.imageIIOException: Unexpected block type 0! so I have downloaded SC and copied back the original pdf.gif file but the error is still there. It doesn't occur on listview mode. Any idea how to fix it? THANKS

I have SuperContainer installed on FileMaker Server 9 and would like to set up a separate test directory of uploaded .jpgs on the same Server. Is this supported and if so, how do I go about implementing it? :confused:

I'm having problem getting the "preview" style parameter to work. My other style parameters appear to work fine. The resulting style when I use the "preview" parameter appears the same as would the default style. My webviewer's calculated URL address is as follows: "http://pcsfmhost2.srs.gov:8080/SuperContainer/Files/" & Business_Images::Portal_2_Index & "?height=" & GetLayoutObjectAttribute( "Business_Image_Thumbnail" ; "height") & "&width=" & GetLayoutObjectAttribute( "Business_Image_Thumbnail" ; "width" ) & If ( Business_Images::Portal_2_Index = ((Int (( $$original_found_count / 4)) * 4) + 1) ; "&style=nopreview" ; "&…

It never fails a end user will try to send their client some email with a huge attachment. And it will some how get lost in the ether, or one of the mail servers will reject the file as it is too large to send. I just set up a system where the users can add files in a table and drag the file into the SC webviewer. Click a button and copy the url to the clipboard and or create a new email with the link embedded. - It would be nice if there was a way to create a "tiny" url to this and or a way to prevent the end user from deleting the file should they modify the url and remove the "nodelete" http://www.domainname.com:8020/SuperContainer/Files/Emai…

Hello, I'm trying to customize the CSS file that come with SC in order to display my own pdf image instead pdf.gif when I use the listview style but I'm lost in the CSS. Does Anyone have done this before? THANKS

Does anyone know of a clever way to use a calculation field to show if an image already exist within SuperContainer? I am developing a IWP application but do not want to use a thumbnail in a list view for performance reasons. Is there a way to use a calculation field instead to tell the user if there is an image for the record? Thanks for the help

I'm having trouble with updating the webviewer. The only way it updates is if I go to layout mode and back to Browse mode. I have tried Resetting, Reloading, I am setting the base url in the beginning. Doing everything that I am supposed to. Any ideas? thanks in advance. -Kevin

I'm having difficulty using the SCGetContainer function to grab images for use in a portal. The SuperContainer demo seems to rely on the fact that you are running SC Server locally, and has no problem grabbing an image. But when I try to use the function using using a URL in the file path parameter (to a remote SC Server), I get an ERROR as the result. Here's an example: SCGetContainer("https://fmdemo.360works.com/SuperContainer/Files/desktoptests/11/7" ; 64 ; 64) Suggestions please!! Thanks! Dave

The latest SC version 2.1.4 gives an error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError in FMPA 9.03 on Leopard OSX 10.5.5 and the latest Java installed, unless I add the Style +noapplet in the webviewer calculation. Any idea which Java file is giving a problem here?

I just wanted to note for those using this in a mixed environment (XP, VISTA Mac) there has been a new release which for me fixed an issue of a black non-functional screen in XP when the plugin and SC are running server side as well. The help and assistance from 360works was fast and super helpful. If you're considering purchasing this product I am very satisfied with the support I received and fixed my issue for me quickly (which actually resulted in the new release). You get get the latest release on their website. 2.1.4 download

I'm having a problem accessing SuperContainer hosted on my remote server (Win 2003/FMSA 9/SuperContainer 2.081) from a Mac client (OS X 10.4.11/FMPA 9). I get a generic Java icon in the web viewer and cannot interact with it. Everything is fine from a Windows client (XP/FMPA 9), so I'm reasonably certain there's nothing wrong on the server end. I'm guessing there's a problem on the Mac side, but I can't find any troubleshooting FAQs for SuperContainer, so don't really know where to start. I tried temporarily turning off the firewall on the Mac but that didn't help. Any other suggestions? Hedrich

I'm sure I'll have a dozen topics on this utility over the next week or so...here's the next: I've got a image showing in the web viewer just fine at 100%. When I Zoom however, the image zooms, but becomes cropped at the dimensions of the WV at 100%. This happens whether I zoom larger or smaller, though when larger, the image stays anchored to the top left and when smaller, it's anchored to the bottom right of the former web viewer. I've played around with the Auto-Resize anchors and tried reload the WV to no avail. A regular web page zooms correctly. Any thoughts on how to stop the image from being cropped when zooming?

I'm having difficulty figuring out why the server won't startup on my server. I get the error: Problem starting/stopping: could not start Supercontainer because of an unknown error in Tomcat. My setup is: Leopard Server, running on an intel xserve running Leopard 10.5.5. FMS9A is installed and everything on it is running fine. Im running Tomcat 6, php and a bunch of other things all running fine. Tried the java installer app which says everything went well. Restarted the server, tried to start up SC and that's the error I get. Anyone know why it has a problem with Tomcat?

I have just purchased SuperContainer after having tried it out in demo mode. I'm running this on XP Pro and do not have FM Server on this machine. When I start the server by clicking on the SuperContainerServer.jar file, I get a message that the license is for an earlier version; when I click on "Register Now" I get the HTTP Status 500 error message: "The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request." When I go to http://localhost:8020/SuperContainer I get the SuperContainer version 2.1.1 home page, but get the same error message If I try go go to the registration page or upload a file. What should I do?

Hello, I have just taken a look of an introduction video about php site assistant and I would like to play around it a little bit but before doing it (since the DBs I'm working on use SC) I would like to know if I can use SC within a php site assistant generated site. THANKS and HAVE A GOOD 1!

Hi -- this is a very basic question, and I'm just looking for confirmation of my understanding before I begin my first implementation of SC on my iMac. The default location for Supercontainer files on my Mac platform is: Users/Shared/SuperContainer Now, when I click on "Options" in the SuperContainer Server window, I'm presented the option of browsing for a different "Files Directory" location. I'm figuring that if I don't want ny image files in the "Shared" directory, I could use this feature to put the SuperContainer files wherever I want them, right? So, if I implemented SuperContainer under the default location and used it that way for several mon…

I'm just getting a handle on SC and I'm wondering if what I've come up with is the best way to handle a situation. I have a folder of 1,200 images, about a gig total. I can't seem to figure out how to batch import the folder into SC using SC. What I've done is batch import them into a FM file, parse out the name, then use a looping script to push the image into SC via SCSetContainer(). Does that seem correct?

Hello guys, I'm using SC (to handle PDFs) within 2 different formats, in one of those I have set up the listview style ...& "?style=listview" but with that style the PDF FireFox asks to download the file instead automatically open it. Is there way to use the listview style and open the PDF without expressly download it? THANKS

Hello folks, is it possible to customize the SC appearance not to display the lock icon when using SSL? I use the SC within a Columnar list/report layout and I would like to keep it as thin as possible . I have already set the listview style but the lock bar is still there. Thanks and have a nice day. Sig

I'm using SuperContainer on a file server with multiple drives. It appears that I can only call out a file path to one drive, specifically the boot drive. Is there any way to set the file path to other drives on the machine as well? Ideally I'd like to store images on one drive and videos on a different one. Thanks in advance for any help! -Kent

I consider myself a novice at Filemaker, but am able to build what I need as I go. I am able to get a simple SuperContainer to work. I also have the plug-in installed. In the SuperContainer docs there is a very short instruction to setting up a portal. It isn't that clear to me so thought I would ask help here. I've tried various scenarios and can't seem to get things working. We are a graphics company. I had all this working with regular containers until I discovered why I need SuperContainer. What I want to do: Place three portals on one page in my document that will display SuperContainers because one job may have many related images and files. I want to display…

Hi, I've been developing a system for a client using supercontainer. For the purpose of development, I've been working on my Mac, G4, Tiger, using FMP9Advanced and the demo license for SuperContainer 2.041. On the Mac, everything works great. I loaded it up on my PC for testing (running WindowsXP). Again using the demo license of supercontainer and running it locally. My files upload and download correctly. I get no errors thrown, yet...there is no file available to view in the webviewer. In looking at the SuperContainer/Files location, the difference I see is that on the Mac, my Thumbnails folder exists, and on the PC, it does not. Does anyone kn…

I have just recently upgraded my FileMaker Server (FMS 9 ADV) from Mac OS Tiger to Leopard. Upon reinstallation of SuperContainer (Version 1.857), and after moving my previously stored documents to the SuperContainer/Files folder from the old CPU, I am able to see the "old" files through a Filemaker Client and through IWP versions of the same. However, when I attempt to upload a "new" file, I encounter a HTTP Status 500 Error. The error message reads: "FileMaker Server has encountered an error: The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request." I assume this is a configuration error on my part, but have been unable to resolve…

Hello, it is all the afternoon I'm dealing with a issue: I'm not sure it is related to SC (installed with Tomcat in the FileMaker Web Publishing Engine) , FM (IWP) or IIS but this is what is going on: I have a DB (reports) that uses SC and everything is fine. The webviewer URL looks like "http://173.1.19.2/SuperContainer/Files/Reports/" & Reports::Code I have a second DB (tasks) that uses SC but it doesn't work. I get a HTTP 400 Error. The webviewer URL looks like "http://173.1.19.2/SuperContainer/Files/Tasks/" & Tasks::Number but if I set the webviewer URL as "http://173.1.19.2/SuperContainer/Files" SC works. If I try to access d…

Hello, We have been using v. 1.856. When I switch to v.2.061 - if there is no file I get a screen with the title "Invalid SuperContainer URL" in the web viewer. If I upload a file - it works fine. Is this something anyone else has noticed? Thank You, Karl

I just started working with the SuperContainer demo. I have it working well and am very happy with the performance improvement. But I now want to print my images out to a contact sheet format (4 x 4 grid per page). When I size the SC web viewer on the 'print only' layout to a smaller size (approx 130 x 130 px.), the new thumbnail is created with reduced pixel dimensions. The print quality obviously suffers when using the thumbnails. A typical file is a JPG - 1440 x 600 px - 72 dpi. How can I get a better printed image at a small print display?

Hello, there is a issue I have to fix ASAP so I post my problem here too (yesterday I have sent out the same through FileMaker Talk but no answer so far). Does FM9S have some kind of cache? If so how can I clean it? I have a DB published through IWP, each record has a supercontainer field (a PDF file). I have updated all the files manually (to save time) and now when I try to open them using FM some are fine and some are the temporary files I have created for testing purposes. The file name is right but once I click the icon the file that is going to open is the old one (that has been deleted from the server). Because of that I guess the issue is related to some…

On SuperConatiner window when I right click I have a menu with 4 options: Save as, Open on browser .... is it possible to disable the menu? Thanks Sig

I get a message that I am using a bad URL - but I am using exactly what they give me. It seems to not like RawData action type - but the File action type displays only an icon so is useless. Is anyone else having this issue? Thanks, Karl

Hi, I have a solution set up with SuperContainer to store digital assets on a Drobo disk array. It's formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled), Everything works fine as far as copying files (with SuperContainer companion plugin) to the specified directory until the file exceeds 2 GB in size. That's when a dialog displays that says "SuperContainer failed to import". Is there a limit to the file size? Thanks in advance! -Kent

Hello I'm a FM (and supercontainer) newbie. Right now I'm trying to install SC and check out if it solves my issues before buying a license. I want to use it with FMS9A and IWP so I have (as described in the documentation) copied the whole folder into my server and double-clicked on installer.jar. it took less than a second to instal it. I have restarted the server but when I point to http://localhost/supercontainer I get a HTTP error 404. FMS works fine, I can successfully connect to http://localhost/fmi/iwp/res/iwp_home.html. Am I missing something?

A few months ago I was working on a project where the client stores a series of PNG images with transparency in a FileMaker db via reference, and they wanted to be able to display those images via Instant Web Publishing through a browser. The sticky part was that they wanted the images to be layered, one overlapping the other, while maintaining image transparency -- so you can see the overlapping images as a single image through the browser. I built a proof of concept file in conjunction with SC 1.8, and it worked great. (Actually, I never got the layered images to display correctly through the layered web viewers in the FMP layout, but once viewed through the brow…

Hello, thanks to Val, SuperContainer is now running on my Server. Now I'm trying to figure out how to use it. That's my scenario: I have a machine running FM9 and a server running FMS9A (both are Win2003 machines). What I need is updating an existing DB making the embedded container field as supercontainers saving the PDFs they contain and after publishing the updated DB with IWP. So those are the steps I guess I have to do in order to achieve my goal. 1- Installing supercontainer as a standalone server application on the machine running FM9 2- Using a script that loops through all the records and pushes that container data into SuperContainer. In this…

Hello, after some issues I guess I have finally understood how SuperContainer works and I have created a simple DB to check it out. I have installed SuperContainer (demo mode) more or less 1 week ago, so now, when I try to use it I get "Invalid or expired license! Enter another license key, or restart SuperContainer". I have restarted FM service but the error is still there, so I have restarted the machine but the error is still there. How can I correctly restart SuperContainer? Thanks. Sig

I have an application where there are 12 containers on a layout. Using Supercontainer, I wanted to have the 12 photos download to the hard drive and appear in the containers. The user can the select the three they want and the processing goes on from there. My problem: the .jpgs are deleted by the next "setcontainer" line. ie, 01.jpg is deleted when 02.jpg is downloaded. Can you not have more than one container on a layout? Thanks.

Has anyone experienced this issue before? I have authentication enabled in the web.xml file, and then tomcat users set up with username and passwords. I am first prompted for the username and password for viewing the web viewer, and then one more time once the java applet begins to load. I've attached a picture: I'm using super container 2.041, have tired embedding usernames and passwords, not sure what else I can try. Any ideas?

SC files are not showing up outside of the LAN. Admittedly, all I have tried so far to access them with is Safari 3.1.2. They are a part of a website that we are hosting and on our LAN, the files show up consistently and quickly. All other parts of the FM database show up perfectly over the web. I have tried forwarding several ports on our Netgear Router Switch- 8020, 8080, 16008-16018, but none seem to have worked. Ports 80 and 16080 were already forwarded. We have been working with a FileMaker Developer (in creating the site and setting up SC), but this issue may fall outside these realms. Any help or experience with this issue would be app…

Ello peepz, I am still trying to go through the demo of SuperContainer before proposing it to my employer to buy the license. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone would be so kind to provide me a sample of how to upload pictures which corresponds to the record view. For example, when I am viewing Record1, there must be picture1. When I view Record2, there is picture2 and so for. If picture3 is not available, I will click on the frame to upload my picture. Thanks Regards, Farah K.

Hi all, I've recently started trying to implement SuperContainer for our solution, which contains many images (up to 3 per record). The main file of the solution was starting to get pretty bloated, and SuperContainer seemed like a perfect solution. But unfortunately I've been running into a couple of problems. First, some of our images are modified in photoshop. meaningful labels are typed at the top or bottom of the image. And given the size of the web viewers I can have on the layout, it seems to clip some of the top and bottom off of the image. The usefulness of the image is entirely based on the documentation typed onto it by the user, so this is definitely…

how do you preview a pdf? I had this working in filemaker container fields. "Insert Object"

I'm installing SC v1.856 for a new client, using a dedicated Mac with OSX 10.5.2, FMServer 9.03.326 I have replaced the server.xml file according to the Documentation, installed the SuperContainer folder in the correct cwpe-tomcat/bin folder of FMServer, but for some reason the SC will not fire up after a reboot and I cannot see SC using either localhost:8080 or IPnumber:8080 in a browser. As all software are the latest versions, I'm just wondering if this is a combination that may pose a problem autostarting the SC.

Hi, In a Mac environment (haven't tested on Windows yet) I'm having difficulty getting the SuperContainer Companion plugin to download when I want it to to a local machine via AutoUpdate from FM server. The issue seems to stem from how the plug-in version says that it's one version in the Get Info window (version 3.0) and the version that FileMaker reads it as (version 1.856). When I name my plugin folder on the server "3.0" it runs the update script every time because I test to see if the local plugin = the remote plugin (1.856 <> 3.0). If I change the plugin folder to "1.856", then the AutoUpdate plugin returns error 6. Does anyone else use AutoUp…

Hi, I got problems to configurate SuperContainer on a Windows 2003 Server (German GUI), IIS and FM Server Advanced 9. Nearly all seems correct, http://localhost:8080/SuperContainer/, the http://localhost:8020/SuperContainer/ are working, I can upload images via http://localhost:8020/SuperContainer/Files/, but I can't see/upload images on IWP or on the client! The file "SuperContainer Example.fp7" can be opened with no error warning, but when I correct the settings to http://ThisIsAPlaceholderForMyIP:8080/SuperContainer/Files the error message comes up: "There is a problem with the SuperContainer base URL:connect timed out"! What I…

I'm trying out SuperContainer; looks good so far, but here's a question. I'm creating a database that will have multiple files uploaded for each record and the files for each record will be in a unique subdirectory. If I delete a record in the database I also weant to delete all the files linked to that record. Is there a way SuperContainer can delete a subdirectory and all its contents or do I have to delete each of the files one by one? I have a script that loops to get the path to each file to be deleted and sends SuperContainer the delete command with the path to the file, one by one. I'd rather be able to just send SuperContainer the path of the subdirectory a…

Just started playing around with it... Can I add mutliple files for one record? and display those files in a list? I.E. I have a movie title "Dark Knight" and it has has three press images attached... I read that it supports portals, but couldn't figure out how to relate multiple records back to my original title and display all images (or documents) assigned to this film title

Howdy. My client wants to take advantage of the thumbnails SuperContainer generates. We want to download to the user's desktop small, medium, and large versions of the extra-large original files. I tried SCDownload(), but it appears to download only the original file. I want to get at the files in the Thumbnails folder. I solved this by writing a script that populates regular container fields, by reference to the thumbnail files. Then the script uses ExportFieldContents to push the image to the user's desktop. I figured there might be a way for SC to do this directly, without the intervening container field. Am I missing something here? A related topic is SCGet…

Even though I have turned off delete the delete button still shows under my image. Images::FilePath & "Images/" & Get ( RecordID ) & "?style=nodelete" & "height=" & GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "pict" ; "height" ) - 80 & "&width=" & GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "pict" ; "width" ) - 10 & "&background-color=white&align=center" On another layout where I have ?style=readonly&nodelete the delete button doesn't show.

I am running the latest version of SC 1.855, plugins are installed in correct folder Running FMPA on a Mac, no problem When opening another license of FMPA on VMWare / Windows XP, the file preferences show me the correct plugin version is indeed installed. However, in the DataViewer or in scripts, on the ExternalFunction: SCVersion, I get a ? reported back. As I use this check in opening scripts, it is an annoying issue. The SCVersion indeed relates to the PLUGIN installed on the client machine doesn't it, not the version in the AutoUpdate flder or of the SCserver that is running on the host machine? Any clues would be appreciated.