Custom Web Publishing

Someone can help me, please. I would like to know: How is it possible to use FMPro databases to create a merchand web site? Do you know any software on PC or Mac? Thanks in advance.

Considering upgrading to v5.5 of FMPro and was floored to be advised by FMPro Tech Support that the Server product cannot provide Web-access to hosted databases, that I must have a second machine running unlimited that redirects requests. I am finding this very hard to believe and need a non-FileMaker employee to confirm this piece of bad news. My first thought was to run unlimited on the same box as the Server, but was told not to due to sharing complications.

I have just been informed that our filemaker pages are unaccessible using netscape 6.2 and were working fine under netscape 6.1. I have noticed in the past few days that the boxes on the RAIC were looping then crashing, as soon as we blocked netscape 6 the problem seemed to disappear. Does anybody have any info about netscape 6.2 and filemaker 5.5?

Is a layout specified for the -lay tag" Does that layout have the necessary fields on it?

TOMORROW (Dec 5) a Firewall will be installed on the network connection between my department's Computer Center and the central computer center used by the rest of the state. Connections to my department from other state Departments and the Internet are routed through this connection. According to the memo I received today, inbound connections will be filtered. Connections initiated from inside my Department's network will not be affected. Some remote connections, i.e., PC Anywhere and RAdmin, may be cut off. It also states there will be some users that will be inadvertently cut off -- those that connect through the Internet and from other departments. I have severa…

My clients found a bug that only seems to happen on PC's, not Macs. I can't figure out why this is happening to them. To find products a search is conducted. At the top of the results page are some graphical buttons for "NEXT" and "Start a new search" etc. On the mac, these buttons work fine, however, on a PC I'm told "NEXT" or "PREVIOUS" don't work. These have been tagged with markup language as such in the Table Row Markup shown below (Start a new search has been tagged differently through Freeway; Freeway is my web design application and it works fine.) code: before <TR> [FMP-linknext] after <TR> [/FMP-linknext] This makes the graphic on…

If you are talking about software that will automatically take the data from FileMaker and make it into an org chart, please let me know what you find. If you want a good org chart/flow chart software that doesn't do this automatically, I personally like a product called "Inspiration". Its cheap (can often be found at educational institutions for around $50), and you don't really have to learn it to use it effectively. It also automatically creates HTML pages out of the organization or flow chart you've created. You can find it at Inspiration.com. Don't let the "kiddy" appearance of the site fool you...the software is powerful. [ December 03, 2001: Message edited…

I have filemaker 5.0. I have a peer to peer network with 2 Windows NT 1 Mac OSX 1 Mac 8.6 1. Windows 98 (serving as the server) I would like to develop an intranet for all the employees to be able to access our timesheets database, projects database, etc. i.e. i would like to develop a filemaker database company intranet to run everything. I have tested a sample database and was able to publish one on our local area network. However, I would like to know the best filemaker version to use so that the 9 employees would be able to access our network locally and for the database layouts to be web published without losing the format or sorting, searching layouts.…

Much better will be validation made with JavaScript. Search some JavaScript websites.

My radio buttons are disappearing when I print. any ideas? HELP!

Dear All, I have a set of Filemaker databses being served for CDML access through port 112 - set by web hosting provider. Unfortunately some of my potential users are behind a firewall. Is there anyway to route this so it goes through port 80. I can't get the web hoster to change the port, but they thought it could be overcome through an ASP, but that seems like an Access solution Dave Collins No Limits IT www.nolimitsit.com [email protected]

Hi On W98/PWS this code works fine. On W2k/IIS5 we get the message: Error Type: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005) [FileMaker][ODBC FileMaker Pro driver][FileMaker Pro]Connect failed This is the code: var rs=Server.CreateObject('ADODB.recordset'); var cn='DSN=FMDSN'; rs.Open ("Select * from properties.fp5", cn); This is a simple conneciton string. It works on W98/PWS why not on W2K/IIS5? Urgent Solution Required!

garrycl has suggested the best solution. I am currently running a website through my cable modem without a static IP: Works like this: You run a DynDNS client on your machine. When your IP changes, it automatically notifies DynDNS of the new IP, which in turn, automatically updates the IP linked to your domain name. Simple concept...works great. Watch the traffic though. Your ISP will pick up on large volume hosting. I use mine for exactly what you want to...to demo apps to clients. If they buy the app, I set up on a legit server. Doing a live internet demo is a big selling point...it's easy to demo from a CD all day but that doesn't show them real world performanc…

I'd like to test and do limited live demos serving dynamic pages using CDML. I'd like to know how to do this via a Cable ISP. Does anyone have experience with using their cable provider for limited testing for their web development? I have @home hooked to a Cable/DSL router (Netgear 314) that connects to an Imac and a PC. Thanks for any help.

Our users send passages in to my database using a text area. When I want to re put them on web page in a fmp-field, tabs and blank lines can not be seen as in a text are so the shape of my passage collapses. What can I do to put my text coming from db on my pages as I sent them to database in a text area without using a text area which limits the length of my passage and force my users use scrollers and avoid printing them.

Is there a way to put more than one criterion in an IF statement? I want to be able to say [fmp-if: field: ProjectDescription .eq. AND field: ProjectName .eq. untitled]. I'm sure this can be done with nested IF statements, but I'd like to avoid that if possible. Although, if I do a nested if, it doesn't seem to work right. I had it as: [fmp-if...][fmp-if...]do this[/fmp-if][else]do this[/fmp-if] I would think that is correct, but it didn't work. Having more than one criterion in the single IF statement is my preference though. Ideas? Thanks, Carrie

If [FMP-image: image field] is to pull an image in a browser, what is the syntax for a quicktime movie? any help with this will be greatly appreciated

You can specify a page to return if there are any errors by adding the -Error=<filename> tag to your link. This can be the same file as your -Format file; use the FMP-CurrentError tag to test for errors. e.g. [FMP-If:CurrentError.eq.401]No records found[/FMP-If] Or you can use [FMP-If:CurrentFoundCount.eq.0]No records found[/FMP-If]

Hello I am trying to make a solution involving both Javascript and a Filemaker 5 database, but I cannot get even the simplest Javascript to work. Am I missing something out? I have searched the Net and books available to me for a solution, but no luck.I haven't found any threads here giving hints to this problem. Example. This little test-script: <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- alert('[FMP-CurrentRecID]') //--> </script> It just displays "[FMP-CurrentRedID]" instead of, lets say "7". When I put the tag [FMP-CurrentRecID] on the page it displays the number ok, but not inside the javascript. What am I doing wrong?

The code seems to be OK (but can't be since it does not work) because it works fine with the other value list options (i e value list from first field and value list from other files field) but when I choose the option of displaying a data from a related field, nothing is shown. Everuthing also works fine in the database, the problem is getting it out on the web. Please help with correct code syntax! Urraco

We have a FM 5 Unlimited with several dbs. One of them is a simple bibliographic database with a search-result form. Now, our customers asked us on the possibility of customizing the result list throgh a web based form. Just before submiting the search, a radio-button based form asks user which fields he wants to see on the list result. Is it possible to do on the same form? (The selection and the search) We have found a solution in two steps: First a form with -edit change the values (1,0) of global fields, and after that the result page is the search page where the user introduces the request. The result page, the list, is based on the global values (If m_author=1 th…

I have a payscale web page that allows users to perform a search on a classification. There are two search results page, one with results and the other with the details of those results/records. Is there a way to have the user be able to choose which layout they want to see the results in when they perform their find? I do not use instant web publishing... Any help would be appreciate! Thanks!

I've got a series of web pages that I created for a database that is residing on my computer. When I search on a username I am returned the correct records. When I click on a record to get to the screen where I can view the entire record and edit it, I am returned the correct information. If I change that information and then hit the submit button (-Edit), I am returned a 102 error, which I believe is "Field is Missing." The information that I have says that the only required tags are -DB and -RecID. I've got -Lay, -Format and -Error as well. Every single field that exists in this database is on the edit screen and every single one is showing the correct value (read: ev…

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Ok... Got us a site that on every page displays 4 records from a database in FM (Version 5 - Unlimited) through an Iframe tag. All it is doing is searching for a certain field within the record and displaying them in ascending order. Doesn't seem like it is that demanding or should be that demanding. It's running on a Dual G4 Mac with over a gig of RAM. Any help would be great because right now everyone who visits is just getting a "Page Could Not Be Displayed" error. Site address: www.basd.k12.pa.us

My colleagues and I are fairly new to FileMaker and have converted an Access database to FileMaker so that we can publish it on the web for use by a small number of users. A key feature of our applicaton is the ability to update data in a portal and then have this updated information immediately available visually in a chart. We are using a great FileMaker extension from X2Max to accomplish the charting. It does everything that we want and more in a nice, clean straightforward way. In our FileMaker application we can enter data and then click on a button that executes a script to generate the chart located in the same layout as the data. Unfortunatley, instant web pu…

Well, this weekend was the big weekend of using the database by the faculty at my school. IT WAS SO SLOW.....any suggestions as to the type of machine this database should be hosted in order to have quick response. or is the file size??? This was an extremely frustrating event. In addition, how do you maintain formatting- such as underlining? tabs? etc. We are using web campanion file size 4.7MB

Hi: I am using checkboxes in one file, I defined the font size in the field as 18, but when I publish this file to the Web, all the other fields show me the font size I defined except the checkbox one, it looks so small and ugly! Can anybody help me on this? Thanks in advance! Catty

Hello all. I'm a novice with FileMaker Pro... I am a MySQL nut, personally... But I'm having some problems with a database machine at my workplace. It's FileMaker Pro 4.0 running on MacOS. For the past week or so, the web interface to the database has been dying for no apparent reason. The GUI on the Mac itself continues to work just fine... To revive the web interface, I have to shut FM down, and restart it. The web interface will be fine for about 15 minutes, then it will die again.... Has anyone ever seen this behavior? If so, do you happen to know any fixes for the problem? Thank you in advance for any advise Brad

Server 5.5 is out. Pro 5.5 is out. Developer 5.5 is out. Anyone have any rumours as to the release date of 5.5 Unlimited? I went ahead with a project based on the "Fall 2001" release date for unlimited, and am now bumping my head on the 10 IP limit of the regular version, since we've gone into production thinking the unlimited version would be released "any day now"... Thanks.

I have both Filemaker 5.0 and Filemaker 4.03 installed on the same machine (in separate folders off program files). I have been using web companion for FMP 5.0 with no problems testing my CDML pages via "localhost" (port is set to 80). Now I want to use localhost to test some pages with FMP 4.03. The default format page displays correctly, but the "results" format page gives me a "database not open" message when I try a search. The database is, in fact, open and web companion is also enabled and configured correctly, or so I thought. I have tried all of the following:

I have an HTML form that appends records to a FileMaker 4 database. How can I save the client IP of the submitter in a designated text field (called "clientip")in the database? Thanks in advance...

Configuration: 2 macs linked via the internet and isdn and (for the host end) through Airport. Network tab in Airport base station has been se up to distribute ip addresses, share single ip address, enable dhcp server and ethernet bridging (all boxes checked). Port mapping has public port 80 mapped to private port 591 We can readily access host a fmp db on Mac

Hello and thanks in advance for the help. I'm running fmpro 5.5 in osX.1. I have three databases served by the web companion and logging is checked for Access, errors, and info. So on October 1 all of my log files stopped logging. I have stopped logging, renamed the old files then started logging again. Three new files are created, but no data are recorded to them. Any ideas?

Ok.. School website using Filemaker for Database. We are using version 5. The server it's on is a Dual G4 with over a gig of ram. Filemaker crashes on a daily basis. The computer seems like it should be more than enough to handle the load of the program. Another question... Is the web companion limited to 10 IP requests per 12 hours? How does that work? Thanks!

I would do it like this: 1. Make the necessary database 2. Make the necessary html pages (format files) 3. Make a simple script which starts everytime someone adds a new person to the DB, the server will print a copy of the designated layout (preferably the badge). 4. Make another script which prints the badge everytime you alters the information of an entrant. This solution would require you to have a centralized printing place. That's the down-part of it, it should work fine otherwise. [if this really is a stupid suggestion, plz ignore me, I'm too tired to think straight]

Here's the problem You can pick up to 10 restaurants from a preselected list of 40 restuarants and/or fill in your own from 10 tezt boxes. So you could select all 10 from the preselected ones, or select 5 preselected ones and fill in 5, or simply fill in all 10. I have 40 checkbox fields (named chk1, chk2, chk3...) for the pre-selected ones and 10 text fields (named box1, box2, box3...) I use Javascript to make sure no more than 10 are selected/entered from both sets. I have a calculated field (rest10) that basically goes through each to see if the field isblank or not. If not, it adds Restaurant name otherwise it adds nothing. The problem is if I go back to the web …

I keep having trouble with the tab order when I publish my forms on the Intranet. The FM's help says that I can not change the tab order for the web, but does anybody know any way to do it? It seems obsolete if you are not able to change it.. Please help me on this.. Thanks..

Hi, I'm a beginner user and I just created a database in filemaker pro 5. Now I want to link it to an intranet webpage for our company so it will automaticly update the web database as the filemaker pro database is updated. I created a web database using the web companion but I want more freedom to change things around so it represents our company better. To my best knoweledge the web companion will only spit out a basic layout with few adjustments. Could anyone recommend a program for creating and designing a web page that is compatible with filemaker pro 5. I don't know HTML but I'm going to try to learn it this weekend. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I…

I have a db with pictures referenced. How can I have them viewable over a webpage? I'm using Claris Homepage to do the connection to the db. It looks like I have to have the image imbedded in the db for it to be viewable. I know I should be able to do it, I just don't have the knowledge. Thanks!

Simple question I hope: With FM server running when anyone accesses the database from html does that run the "When opening *.fp5 ... Perform Script..." set in the preferences everytime? thanks, nati

Hi, Instead of ERR#504 when adding a record to the database, I would like to give the user a meaningfull explanation on what went wrong. Any idea how to do this? Thanks,

I have written a database that I am hosting with FMP 5 Unlimited and IIS 4.0 on an Windows NT 4.0 server. Users are authenticated using NTFS security and authentication occurs without a problem. They can create records but every time they attempt to edit a record, they get a null pointer exception error. If they refresh, they receive a prompt telling that that they must reconnect, they click okay and the record is edited. They don't have to log back in, it simply reconnects and edits the record. Does anyone have any idea as to what may be causing this error? Please help!!!

I use a Linksys as a router - and it gives false addresses on my network. I've configured the router for forwarding so when it hit my real IP address, the request should be forwarded to FleMaker Server. My problem: FMServer take automatically the fake address from my TCP/IP preference -- and I cannot change it in the network tab in the FMserver Preference window. How should I proceed. Armand Par

I've roughed in a searchable data base for people looking for used cars, but all the alternatives in Web Companion are too ugly. Can I somehow redesign the page that my data base gets rendered into?

hello, First question : On a win exchange server, can one use fm database to store data. FM ODBC driver: is this a good solution. Second Quesion : Can one display multiple checkboxes on web page. Retrieve user selection with ASP AND THEN store this data in a fm database. I am doing this with Access but I can't store multiple values. Eg:user selects A B and C I want to store it as A B C and not as a numerical value eg binary coding: 1+2+4=7 I could use numerical coding with Access but I want a user friendly interface for someone to use the database after data has been stored. ie : I want the user to SEE A,B and C and not guess it is A,B and C wh…

Hello, I'm a user interface designer, and I'm interested in using Filemaker for prototyping web applications. Is it possible to link static HTML / javascript pages to the data in a Filemaker database? I've read the help and looked at some of the Filemaker web sites, and so far it looks like it's not possible - you have to design the layout using FileMaker, and rely on Web Companion's translation into HTML. If so, I'm thinking of perhaps surrounding the Filemaker database with a couple of static HTML frames, and having links on those frames run Filemaker scripts or change Filemaker layouts. Has anyone done anything like this? Is it possible? Thanks, Jim Corban

Does anyone know if you can enable spell check to fields using Web Campanion Instant Publishing?

problem: multiple requests to a published database when the format file (after you have done the request - i.e. not the static html page) exceeds 40KB will hang FMP - we run IIS on NT with WSC + FMP Server with 3 Boxes in the RAIC so this ought to be as robust a system as we can do. make sure all results pages are less than 40Kb - this is a potential nightmare but for now we're working on this basis - basically if you have a page that returns more tha 15 records this tends to make the page over 40KB give it a try: simply find a results page over 40KB press refresh 25 times and see what happens - i'll bet FMP hangs solution: i don't know - any ideas???

In the past I have set up multiple FMP 4.0 databases running on Mac, NT & 98 platforms using CDML. This has worked extremely well for my current low-traffic needs. However, I would like to know what volume of traffic is FMP able to handle? I would like to setup a database system that would interact with live data on a SQL server. I will be having 500 to 3000 users and running on an NT box. I need to have real good security too. If a hacker knows enough about the CDML syntax, he could easily see other users records by using the -FindAll URL function in FMP4.0. I do it all the time to see all the records in my online db when away. I have noticed that this f…

I've been working on the search pages of my web site. There are currently 2 drop downlists, one is named manufacturers and the second lists subcategories of products that the specific manufacturer makes. That subcategory should be specific to the manufacturer. Right now, in my database, it's not specific to a manufacturer. I need it to be though. I did try using a case function calculation like this: Prod_Type_Case = Case(Manufacturers = "Hon", Hon, Manufacturers = "Martin", Martin, Manufacturers = "Creative",Creative, Manufacturers = "LaZBoy", LaZboy, Manufacturers = "Hooker", Hooker) What I had hoped this would do is have it look at whether the choice of say "Creat…

If you use a container field and view it on the web, how can the contents (the contents that are NOT pictures) be viewed and saved without re-writing anything? And if you had to re-write something, what would you do?

Hi, I am looking for a Web Server software to host my FM database over the net along with my web pages. The requirement is the page the user log on require a login and password. Doesn't matter it is on the Windows or Mac. I have a few in my mine, but I need opion or suggestion from other users. Thanks Stanley

Does anyone know the best way to send out a link to a particular record. My database sends out links that work fine for most people, but seem to be slightly distorted by certain mail aps. One group here uses case tracking software called Sonar that's causing problems. My links look like this: http://internal.info.com/ddesc/FMPro?-db=ddescalations&-format=record_detail.htm&-error=search_error.htm&-lay=layout1&-op=eq&escid=10068&-find Sonar changes a few characters and shows this: http://internal.info.com/FMPro?-db?escalations&-format=record_detail.htm&-error=search_error.htm&-lay=layout1&-op=eq&escid068&-find I'…

I am a school teacher that would like to make report cards (the processof writing them) available online to teachers. I am currently using Filemaker 5.0 and waiting impatiently for the release of 5.5 which will allow for record specific security. In the meantime, I am setting up passwords and estblishing group access to specific layouts and fields. However, this is obviously sensitive material. I have read that the database should not sit in the web folder. I just installed the client on the machine and dragged the documentinto the web folder of by server hosting the web site is that dangerous? (to see it i opened port 591 on the firewall) Assuming the passwords stay …

I'm trying to get started doing db publishing on the web for my nonprofit. We have two simple databases to 'webify' : One is a list of grantees and info about them. (a flat file) Second, we want to let our web visitors join a mailing list--- they would enter info into form fields, hit submit, and the data would go into an FM database. (another flat file) Here's my questions: 1. Can FM Pro 5.5 (w/ web companion?) do this using it's Instant Web Publishing features? 1. Is FM Pro 5.5 much better or different from 5.0 or 4.0 with regards to web publishing features? 2. Would you recommend Marie Langer's book "Database Publishing with FileMaker Pro on the Web" even thou…

Is it legal in this forum to ask for recommendations for hosts who support FileMaker? Who have you had good luck with?

I want to add a portal that has 3 fields in it to a table on my webpage, do all three fields have to be in the same cell? What I have right now is: <td valign="top" align="right">[FMP-Portal: Salary][FMP-field: Salary::AR] [FMP-field: Salary::Minumum] [FMP-field: Salary::Maximum]<br>[/FMP-Portal]</td> But what I would like is something like: <td valign="top" align="right">[FMP-Portal: Salary] [FMP-field: Salary::AR]</td> <td valign="top" align="right">[FMP-field: Salary::Minumum]</td> <td valign="top" align="right">[FMP-field: Salary::Maximum]<br>[/FMP-Portal]</td> It doesn't seem to work as wel…

Heya, I have a question that I haven't been able to solve for a while so I figured I'd try you guys here and see what I can find out. I have been running for the last year a few databases served up with FileMaker and haven't had any problems. Now for the next year or so I wanted to enhance my user interface for my clients. When the person signs up they choose a password as well as they are given a unique ID number that I generate via a calculation. Both of these are a field in the Members database(Member.fp4). Now what I want to do is let someone via an HTML field enter in their ID number and password and be let into an interface for them to affect changes and sear…

Does anyone know of third-party reporting tools that enable end-users to query and generate reports over the web? The solution needs to support FM 5.3 on a MAC server. Thanks.

Hi, I've FINALLY managed to put my database online. Am using FileMaker with TomCat (thru the JDBC driver) at www.adindx.com It's a rather crazy system, and I'd appreciate any inputs (negative or positive ). If anyone has the time, the username is "Swati" and the password is also the same. And just in case you have the inclination, pls mail any comments to <[email protected]> Thanks in advance Partha Dasgupta

If I am a user that is using unlimited to access information on the intranet, can I open the databases on hosts even when I do not have FM on my machine? [ October 04, 2001: Message edited by: Lifetime ]

Hi, I am still trying to find the best solution to publish filemaker databases on the web. I was already inclined to go with the Lasso-Filemaker solution until Macromedia and Filemaker announces its Ultradev integration with the Filemaker product by upgrading its JDBC driver. So now I am thinking about creating JSP pages and using the JDBC driver to publish Filemaker DBs on the web. But there doesn't seem to be enough documentation and resources on the Filemaker JSP route. Like for example, how would JSP handle relational Filemaker databases?

Is there a problem with running regular multi-user databases out of the Web folder in FileMaker. I put all my databases there for convenience, but I wonder if it could cause problems. I've been having a lot of crashes lately, particularly when requesting that people visiting a multi-user db disconnect. When they disconnect, it seems to bring FileMaker down all together.

I was using FileMaker 5.5 to host a number of online databases. This morning users started getting a "maximum number of useres exceeded" message. I thought that this wouldn't be a problem as I understood users only spend a fraction of a second when accessing databases via the web. A co-worker of mine told me that FileMaker 5.5 only allows 10 people to access database during the course of a day. I know this can't be right, but then why were users getting this message? I've returned to FileMaker 5 Unlimited and it seems to be working fine at this point.

I have configured a simple website accessing three database's. The database boxes just freeze and even when you try and access a static page a DNS error is displayed. Does anybody have any load testing solutions avaliable? Also does anybody have experience of Filemaker 5.5 and the new version of webconnect? It is not out here yet in the UK and I was wondering if it is a good upgrade? Filemaker Inc don't seem to have much info about what it new. Thanks

I recently switched over to FMP 5.5 Unlimited from FMP 4.0. FMP 4 was set up on NT, was hacked into AND was infected with a virus. After cleaning up that mess and doing a virus scan, FMP is back up and running. I now have everything set up on a new server operating on Windows 2000. I converted all the databases to 5.5. I run about a dozen databases simultaneously for various companies on the new server that are incorporated with their websites. A couple things I noticed... 1. On 4.0, when I would work on a database, I could change, modify, etc. a record while users were accessing the website and pulling information from the database without any problems. Now, when I…

Does anyone have any information with respect to using Verisign's PayFlow Pro credit card processing software with a Filemaker Driven site? How easy is it? Any experiences, thoughts, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a mil in advance.

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is there a way to set up a link (url) into a database from my domain? or a website? or my own "index.html"? (i'm saying those three things all trying to express a singular thought.) i tried to change the port to 80 (but then i realized that i was linking to a file like any other and not using FMP's (5.5 OS X) server... and i tried copying the url from the browser when i was using the web companion... i combined all that but couldn't get it working. is it possible? what are the steps? [ September 26, 2001: Message edited by: axis ]

Each one of my registered users can chose a username and password themselves. They are two normal fields in FMP and the whole security works fine. However, the way it is set up at the moment, I can simply open the database and see all their passwords. I don't really feel good about that, seeing that a lot of people use the same password for all their accounts and emails, etc. Also, I am afraid that somebody else might have a look at the database (the server is standing in a room that is sort of accessible to a few people). Is there a way to replace the password-characters in FMP with the famous asterisks? So that nobody can see them, even with full access-rights to the d…

Hi all- I've got a FM5 database on a remote host server, and I have setup a form on my site to garner customer information. I am running into the following problem: when I click the submit button, I get an error that says "The Server Is Very Busy. Your identity could not be verified at this time. Please try this operation again at a later time. " Any ideas as to why I'm getting this error? You can see this form and error at http://spiceberry.forest.net/urbanfarm/email.html Your help is appreciated.

Hello, I have user trying to access my FM55 database. Everytime he tries I get the follwoing message in the Access Log: HTTP/0.0" 403 3666. The user is trying to access from a compuserve dial up account. This is the only user that is having this problem. Any thoughts? Thanks Corey Jackson

OK, so I have a script that runs perfectly on FMPro 4, but the deal is, I need to run it from the Web. Specificly, I want to have a button on my web page that performs the script in FM. Is it possible to do this? I've tried to do it by specifying a field button and connecting it through Claris Homepage, but it doesn`t work. How can I do this using Claris Homepage or another way. Thanks!

I am pretty sure that this is a very easy question but I never worked with the web feature of FileMaker so... A friend of mine wants to publish his FileMaker database on the web. Big question: is the database on the website server at his ISP or is the database itself on his mac (meaning that he needs a connection between the website and his local FM database)? He doesn't have a static IP address so it is impossible for him to get a constant link between his website and his Mac.

How on earth do access the data in a -max field. ordinarily it is formname.fieldname.value="5" however search.-max.value="5" doesn't work. Thanks in advance. Ric

I've not been using FMPro for long - currently trying to produce a web-enabled database in FM Pro 5. I'm using a lot of checkboxes, and when I've done the layout off-line, I've resized the checkboxes so that the value list (in this case 'yes') doesn't show - in Browse mode it looks fine. When you view the database online however, I've got a load of checkboxes with Yes beside them, which I don't want. How can I make the Yes go away? I'd really appreciate the help!

I have an Apache server and FileMaker Unlimited with Web Server Connector, and I would like to know if this is possible: I would like to have a front page on the web server that is built up from several .html files using Server Side Includes and on that page I want to have a Recent News list with data from the FileMaker database. Please help me JLL

I'm trying to create an online mailing database in which users can enter and update their information. Its easy enough to create a new record and let them enter information. Its another issue for users to create their own password (their login is their email address). Can anyone point me in the right direction? At this point I'm trying to do this purely in FMP. Thanks!

I want to conduct a web survey, and import responses into a database as automatically as possible. I don't see anything in the documentation about soliciting data through the web. I'm thinking there must be some way to use standard HTML forms, in which mail is sent to me each time a respondent submits data, and automatically (?) have that data imported into my database. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! (By the way, I know that Dragon Web Surveys can do all this, but I took one look at the price and could only laugh. It's obviously targeted at corporations, and I'm just a poor social scientist.)

Help I have an existing web enabled database and would like users to be able to find a record, then click on a link that would take them to a new related record. Is there any fancy CDML tags that will do this? Cheers

Not sure how to do it in CDML, but with Lasso: [string_Replace: (field:'yourfieldnamehere'), Find='r', Replace='<br> <br> r',EncodeSmart] - John

I have a basic forum running using ROFM.acgi and FM Pro v 3.0v1 on Mac OS 8.6 I would like to update this to FMPro version 5.0 and extend its design to a multi-pane system using a new related file for each new topic. Anyone have any experience of this?

I'm sharing a Filemaker database on my small intranet via web companion. However, submitting a record takes forever (5-10 minutes). The server is an NT box running Filemaker and the workstations are connected via 100MPS cards. No other apps have issues running over the network. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I have tried linking some databases on our network from our intranet web page, using the following syntax. "fmp5://[host_IP]/filename". This is apparently supposed to open the specified hosted file on the local machine. All the link does is launch FMP5 or bring FMP5 to the front if it is already launched. - Have only tested on MacOS. ANY Ideas?:

I need to have a utility that will sit on windows and open a file every 20 minutes. This will open my opener file that then opens all my website databases. So if filemaker crashes it will be restarted by this file and I can sleep at night Simon

I just started working for my college library, and they are using FMPro for a couple of their databases. The databases are used by students as well as staff. I'd like to make it so that students don't have to login as a guest every time they come to the main page of the server to do a search, but give staff the option as logging in so that they can add/change/ect the entries. Any ideas? I was thinking something along the lines of a page for students that automically logs them in when they access the database, but I have no idea whether that is possible or how to do it. Thanks, Ralph Douglass Oberlin College

Hi all! I've been publishing databases on the web on a friend's Mac servers for several years now with great success. Alas, my friend has closed his servers and I am now at the mercy of a hosting company with NT servers. Thy do not directly support FileMaker, although they seem to support every other database program in the world. In any event, I need to build dynamic pages using the information in my FMP4 files without having to buy a PC and learn new software. Am I stuck serving the database separately (from my house), or is there a scripting language/other solution that I'm overlooking? (And if I have to upgrade to FMP5.5, I'll happily do so in order to solve this pro…

Hi, I try the database Pop3it to receive e-mail by File Maker. It work perfectly. But I want to share this database on the web to create a forum where people send e-mail and can see automaticly her message on the web site. But after I have create a page to call the information in the database with CDML it's not work. When I go to see my page they say to me that the database was not open! It's not true and my database was connect with the plug-in Web Companion to share information on the web. So, if my others databse work perfectly on the web, why this one cannot work? It's possible that it was only a stupid little detail but if someone can help me... Thank!

Hi, I'm having trouble trying to make a cookie persist after the end of a session. I have a very simple line: [FMP-SETCOOKIE: voter=already voted, EXPIRES=30000] it sets fine and works, but expires when the browser is closed. What am I doing wrong??

Hello there, Does anyone know how to code a pull down from a value list with the selected option being whatever is already in the field? i.e. if the field has 'B' in it and when the page is viewed of that record the pulldown shows 'B' selected from it and if it's changed to 'D' then 'D' will appear selected in the pulldown the next time the page is accessed. Thaks in advance Antz.......UK.......

Hello, I am somewhat new to Filemaker, but have some basic experience in Db's. Here is what I am trying to accomplish: I have a database that contains the records for individual users. I have assigned a group, and each user has a password in that group. Then I limit their access to a specific layout with certain fields not accessible. My problem is I want each user to have access to only their record. As it sits now, any user can access any other users info and change it. Do I need to make each user a separate db file or is their a way to limit access to an individual record? I really appreciate your help in advance. Thanks Don Andrzejczak Dmacman

Easy. Display calculation field instead the full one and put in your preferred number of letters or words.

When viewing dB's over the net using the Opera (Ver. 5.12, Build 932, Win NT) browser (http://www.opera.com) both the host (Win NT) and remote PC crashes. Has anyone come across this problem and found a fix? The problem does not occur when view web-pages, only when viewing the actual dB.

Does anybody know of a way of embedding the Web Security Database login panel into a web page. That is, so it does not pop-up when the user attempts to access the database, it is however presented in a controlled and aesthetic manner. Thanks Garry

Hi Folks, Having done some basic research on this outstanding forum, I am approching the conclusion that there is a fundamental problem in applying [FMP-Option] in custom web designs with Filemaker. Is this correct? For example, from my CDML reference guide, I would expect the following... <select name="Groups"> [FMP-option: institutions] </select> ...to generate a pop-up menu of form inputs that are the values of my valuelist associated with the field called "institutions." (Given that I already designated the correct value list for this field, the correct database, the form action, etc.) Do I sound like I'm on the right track? Is the use o…

Hi, I would like to create a forum with FM. But what I want is the people who participate to the forum can write her message directly in a e-mail software (ex.: Outlook, Eudora, etc...) and after they have sent the message at the e-mail adress of the forum, the database in FM receive it and post it directly on the web. I know, I have to create a special web page to treat the e-mail, but did you think it's possible to send a e-mail directly in a FM database? Before, I use forms in my forums. It's easy to use and people just have to write her message, click the "send" button and the FM database treat it and post it directly on the web. But it is possible to do not use a …

Has anyone figured out how to get the onSubmit() to work within the submit name -NEW or -EDIT? It refuses to proccess/validate the onSubmit method. It even refuses to performa simple window.alert(), I can get the onClick to work. Right now it submits thorugh the form reguardless of returning false to the onSubmit method. I appriciate any help.

Dear all, I know it defeats the objectives of a database but I am tempted to create html pages with predefined search results (I only have 12 possible search categories- so that won't be too bad) and then save these pages and dish them out statically to the user. As My data only changes once a year, I presume that is feasible. I have had a good look through lots of sources but I only find the static method mentioned but not discussed. I was using Access and Front Page before and there dynamically created pages contain 600kb (!!) worth of comment,which makes the file annoyingly big. Am I okay just saving dynamically created pages from FMP? Or how does the static method wo…

I want to use the method of searching for records and export these into html. Unfortunately my hyperlinks (e.g.http://www.ibm.com) only display as text. I have already found this question posted here and the solution appeared to be using an anchor tag in the formatting page. What is the formatting page (I am only just starting). Thanks for your help.