Simon

This machine is seperate to the WC machine, and yes it gets a lot of traffic through it. It is though on the machine that runs filemaker server. Not hosting the files this filemaker pro is opening, hosting files for my internal network. This thought was not a problem with filemker v5 just 5.5 Simon

you do the following [fmp-if: (ProjectDescription .eq. something).AND.(ProjectName .eq. untitled).OR.(projectdescription.eq.somethingelse)].

When I look at task manager Filemaker is up to 19Mb and running at 99% CPU. Stop it and the machine runs perfectly again. Simon

Since I have loaded 5.5 unlimited on two machines as a raic for the website both machines are running up to CPU 100%. Any ideas. It is on a windows 2k box. The system usage in task manager says it has been using the cpu constantly since I restarted 4 hours ago. Help Simon

A way round this is to use the inlinetag to do a search of the database you want to build the value list from finding on the relationship value then use [fmp-record to build the value list ie [fmp-record]<option value="[fmp-field: fieldforlist]">[fmp-field: fieldforlist] [/fmp-record]</option> Hope this helps

Depending on how many fields you could use tokens so if they choose yes for show author and this put a yes on -token.1 then use [fmp-if: currenttoken:1.eq.yes][fmp-field: author][fmp-else][/fmp-if] Hope that helps Simon

make the -format tag a drop down menu which could say either List View Detail View and have them choose which format file to get <select size="1" name="-format"> <option value="listview.htm">View as List <option value="Detail.htm">View as Detail </select> That should do it. Simon

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To get the use of the file a currentrecid inside an inline you do the follwoing. [fmp-inlineaction: -db=mydatabase.fp5, token.1="{currentrecid}", fieldtosearch="valuetofind", -find] If you want to pull information from file a into your found results to show different info you use the { } tags. ie you have a field in file a that you want to use as an if statement(on my site a candidate says he is interested in consulting. I find his record and then on my page I do a search of the company database and of the info found I want to show the consulting departments phone number as that is what the guy is interested in) ou have to use tokens and the { } tags in the inline. Therefore unfortunately limiting yourselve to 10 fields you can use. [fmp-inlineaction: -db=companydatabase.fp5, industry="{fmp-field: industry}", -token.1=(fmp-field: industry}", -find][fmp-record][fmp-if: currrenttoken:1.eq.consulting][fmp-field: consulting_phone_number][/fmp-if][/fmp-record][/fmp-inlineaction] Hope that helps

found a program called automizer that runs on pc. Just told it to run my opener file every 5 minutes. Does the job fine. Thanks for help Simon

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

Keith, As i started my reply with unfortunately I thought I was implying that your information was very useful but not something he could make use of unless he started to use cdml. No offence meant. By the way I use -lop alot and it always works for me in every instance al;though I agree with you that -op is very unpredicatable and it is better to put in the straight forard filemaker characters such as ==. Could you state properly why you believe -lop is useless. Simon Simon

Unfortunately Keith he is obviously using instant publishing just by looking at the format file he is getting. He then has no control over the url so can't do as you say. You need custom publishing. To answer some of your real questions. You do not need to web server connector to make the email links work, or Filemaker developer either. You just need to begin learning Custom Web Publishing which can be done with any version of Filemaker. The only thing developer helps with is a CDML (custom web page language) Reference file that gives you a list of the replacement tags available for web page proccessing. But this is downloadable from websites (search this forum to find out where). This will enable you to make your email links clickable and a whole lot more. Simon

I am writing a windows utility that will enable easy file upload. It will work with the fmp-currentrecid tag enabling you to pass through the page for an upload and come back to where you would like to be at the other end. If anyone is interested in full spec please email me. Si

are you using the post action or get. Get is seriously limited in the amount of information it can pass back WC Simon

You could have some selections on your form be tokens not fields. Have a -format page that is a redirect. Swap over the tokens into field definitions and create the second record on the second page. I think Simon

I would also write it like this [FMP-If: idmFileExt.eq.CT] I would get rid of the field: and get rid of spaces in the eqs part. That should work. If not then as above make sure the field is on the layout. You can check for a layout problem by deleting the call to a layout in the request for the page. I do this so that i don't spend ages routing around filemaker to find if it is one layout or not. If you call from no layout then it should appear nomatter what kayout it is on. If it still doesn't appear at least you know it is not a layout problem Simon

Keith, How does that answer his question. He clearly states that he wants people to add to the database and not have to keep rewriting the code every time somones does. His only problem seems to be that he is not building the page from an action call. The CDML value list works perfectly. Simon

Are you using the -LOP command, it defaults to or which means just one of the fields has to match the search. If you but a hidden field with -LOP equalling AND then the search has to match both fields Simon

If I restart my server web connector has lost any knowledge of my hosts. Is this a know problem. I am using the most uptodate web connector. Simon

So what happens if I get rid of the comment tags <-- --> Will the javascript stop working Simon

Is it possible to get fmp tags to be substituted with a macromedia fireworks document. It produces a lot of javascript that I do not understand and I wish to have the cdml in links replaced below is an example <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function fwLoadMenus() { if (window.fw_menu_0) return; window.fw_menu_0 = new Menu("root",278,21,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",14,"#000000","#ffffff","#6666cc","#000084"); fw_menu_0.addMenuItem("Business School Review","location='fm'"); fw_menu_0.addMenuItem("Register for World MBA Tour 2001","location='fm'"); fw_menu_0.addMenuItem("Postgraduate Education","window.open('fm', '_top');"); fw_menu_0.bgImageUp="fwmenu1_278x21_up.gif"; fw_menu_0.bgImageOver="fwmenu1_278x21_over.gif"; fw_menu_0.hideOnMouseOut=true; window.fw_menu_1 = new Menu("root",176,21,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",14,"#000000","#ffffff","#6666cc","#000084"); fw_menu_1.addMenuItem("MBA Recruiters","location='fmp'"); fw_menu_1.addMenuItem("Graduate Recruiters","location='fmp'"); fw_menu_1.addMenuItem("Technical Recruiters","location='fmp'"); fw_menu_1.addMenuItem("Executive Recruiters","location='fmp'"); fw_menu_1.addMenuItem("Industry Guides","location='fmp'"); fw_menu_1.bgImageUp="fwmenu2_176x21_up.gif"; fw_menu_1.bgImageOver="fwmenu2_176x21_over.gif"; fw_menu_1.hideOnMouseOut=true; window.fw_menu_2 = new Menu("root",257,21,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",14,"#000000","#ffffff","#6666cc","#000084"); fw_menu_2.addMenuItem("Update CV","location='fmpro'"); fw_menu_2.addMenuItem("Search Job Database","location='fmpro'"); fw_menu_2.addMenuItem("View Applications","location='fmpro'"); fw_menu_2.addMenuItem("Register for Top Career Forums","location='fmpro'"); fw_menu_2.addMenuItem("Careers in Consultancy","window.open('fmpro?-db=database.fp5&-format=page.htm&-recid=[fmp-currentrecid]&-find', '_main');"); fw_menu_2.bgImageUp="fwmenu3_257x21_up.gif"; fw_menu_2.bgImageOver="fwmenu3_257x21_over.gif"; fw_menu_2.hideOnMouseOut=true; window.fw_menu_3 = new Menu("root",175,21,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",14,"#000000","#ffffff","#6666cc","#000084"); fw_menu_3.addMenuItem("Personal Home Page","window.open('fmpro?-db=database.fp5&-format=page.htm&-recid=[fmp-currentrecid]&-find', '_main');"); fw_menu_3.bgImageUp="fwmenu4_175x21_up.gif"; fw_menu_3.bgImageOver="fwmenu4_175x21_over.gif"; fw_menu_3.hideOnMouseOut=true; fw_menu_3.writeMenus(); } // fwLoadMenus() //--></script> The fmp links at the bottom of the above text do not get substituted Any help??? Simon

I have just implemented a three machine RAIC and web connector on my website and can not believe the performance change I am now seeing. My set up is a 500MHZ Pentium 3 with 500MB Ram running Filemaker Server 5 two 1GHZ P3 with 384MB Ram running Filemaker UNlimited 5 and one of these machines with IIS5 running web connector. All running under Windows 2000 Server. I have found the following great advantages. 1. Obviously the fact that now when one database is busy the other serves the next request. 2. Then IIS sends the data to the browser so that web companion can get on doing the next request and obviously IIS is multi threaded. 3. Security is so much better as web connector is hitting databases set to serve on an internal ip address not an external one. 4. I now have 55 databases serving the website, which with just one copy of filemaker was not possible. I have the least used ten open 5 on one machine and 5 on the other. 5. Filemaker server now does its backups once a night and that is automatically put on tape 1 hour later. 6. People now access the website on port 80 instead of a second port number and internally web connector hits port 8080 or 591. I have found the 591 is not a port that corporates have access to as company firewalls often only have the very necessary ports open to access, obviously port 80 is one of them. Overall my experience has been very rewarding and has taken my use of filemaker on the web to a new level. I knew I could do all I wanted on filemaker but its web access and reliability were starting to cause me big problems. This seems to have given it a new lease of life. Just thought you lot would like to read about it. It is a step that I think a lot of people should think about if they get quite a high level of usage. My site has over 5000 new registrations a month and currently has 30,000 or so users. This was killing just fM unlimited on its own. Any points about above would be eagerly waited. Simon

you could also filter them out on the results page by putting [fmp-if: searchable.eq.1][fmp-record] record details[/fmp-record][fmp-else][/fmp-if] Simon

thats all fine, I have bought a copy of lasso, but my whole website is in fmp 5 will lasso serve it with out me having to do any work, I know that lasso is suppossed to understand filemaker tags but is it that good at doing so. Simon