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  1. I'm seeing odd behavior when trying to delete a find request. It works fine if you are using a table that exists in the file, but not when you have a layout based on a TO from a different file. The request does not disappear immediately. It lingers until you go to another request. Can anyone else confirm this? Try the following: 1) Make a new file containing 1 table. Add a couple of fields and records. 2) Make a second file that contains no tables. Add an occurrence of your table from file 1. Make a layout based on that TO. 3) Enter Find mode. 4) In the first request, enter the criteria "one". 5) New Request. Enter criteria "two". 6) New Request. Enter criteria "three". 7) Go back to the 2nd request. Delete Request. At this point, you should see the "two" criteria vanish, but it doesn't! It remains showing on screen (you can edit it, etc), and the Status Area still says you are on request 2 of 3. If you click to go back to the 1st request, at that point, things will update to display the correct results of the Delete Request. I'd like to confirm that this is a real FileMaker bug and not something odd on my system.
  2. I have been checking into this for storing resumes in a database in Word, PDF, and other formats. The solution is to 1) store a reference to a file (which you are already doing), and 2) use the following script step: Go to Field [select/perform; my_container_field] If you embed the file, this doesn't work. In fact, I can't figure out much of any real advantage to embedding the files since all you can do with them is import and export them. There is no way to open them, edit them, save them, attach them to e-mails, etc, etc using the built-in scripting. If I'm wrong, please let me know! -David
  3. I'm guessing that the answer is "can't be done", but maybe someone knows a trick I don't. Any way to change Access Privileges (create a new password, modify settings for a Group, etc) while a database is hosted by FileMaker Pro Server 5.5? I know that if I connect as the sole user with full access, I can define fields and do most everything else, but being able to add in a new user without shutting everything down would sure be nice!
  4. You can get Mac OS X to automatically start the FileMaker Server daemon when the machine boots. This has been documented in other places, but since I can't recall a direct link, here's what I've done to make it work. You need to create an item to startup FMP Server in the /System/Library/StartupItems folder. To do these actions, you need root level access either directly through the root account or through sudo. 1) Create a folder "/System/Library/StartupItems/FMPServer". 2) "cd" into that folder. 3) Create a text file named "StartupParameters.plist". The contents of this file should be: code: { Description = "FileMaker Pro Server"; Provides = ("FileMaker Pro Server"); Requires = ("Disks", "Resolver"); OrderPreference = "Late"; Messages = { start = "Starting FileMaker Pro Server"; stop = "Stopping FileMaker Pro Server"; }; } 4) Create a file named "FMPServer". Assuming you have FMP Server installed in the /Applications folder, the contents of this file should be: code: #!/bin/sh ## # Start FileMaker Pro Server ## . /etc/rc.common ConsoleMessage "Starting FileMaker Pro Server" cd /Applications/FileMaker Server 5.5/FileMaker Server Config.app/Contents/Resources/ ./fmserverd -c fmserver.conf (NOTE: Make sure the entire /Applications/FileMaker Server 5.5/FileMaker Server Config.appContents/Resources/ path should be on 1 long line. Also note the backslashes to properly escape the space characters in the path.) 5) Change the "FMPServer" file to be executable using: chmod 755 FMPServer 6) Reboot machine and note the happy "Starting FileMaker Pro Server" line that appears as Mac OS X loads all its services. If you either cut and paste these or type them in VERY carefully, all should be well, but do watch all of the punctuation, etc. as Unix scripts are very picky about such things. You will probably also want to make sure to put your databases to be hosted in the same folder as the FileMaker Server Config.app or in a folder inside that one so that the fmserverd will automatically open them when it starts. [ December 14, 2001: Message edited by: dblezard ]
  5. I have been migrating a FM 4 solution with a Lasso-based web interface to FM 5.5 using the Web Companion and CDML. Most everything is done, but when we started testing, we began seeing problems with Windows Internet Explorer clients. When trying to open ANY static or dynamic web page, graphic, etc from the Web folder, some Windows machines (both 98 and 2000) using Internet Explorer (various 5.5 and 6 versions) produce a "Bad Request" error stating that the server could not process the request due to a syntax problem. On the other hand, other Windows machines with similar setups work fine. Using Netscape or Opera on the machines with the "Bad Request" errors also works fine. I have tried both the 5.5v1 and 5.5v3 Web Companions with FileMaker 5.5 and FileMaker 5.5 Unlimited with the same results. Down grading to FileMaker 5 and Web Companion 5.0v1 makes all of the tested Windows clients work properly. In a call to FM Support yesterday, they seemed to ignore this fact and insist that it must be a client-side problem and not a problem with FileMaker 5.5. Has anyone else seen this or anything similar? Any suggestions?
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