joegold

Tabbing down the portal rows does not work if you are in a list view. This behavior only occurs in a detail view (or with onObjectKeystroke script triggers)

Just confirming that SuperContainer is fully compatible with FileMaker Server 13. Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks! - Joe Gold

Is it possible to watch a quicktime movie that has been uploaded by SuperContainer, either inside of the web viewer or in a calculated container field? If so, how? Thanks.

Any solution to this problem???

Super Container seems to be cropping large images (32x48 inches). Even when I specify the width using getlayoutobjectattribute("objectname";"width") it still crops the image.

where is the log file? I went to preferences and clicked on "report a bug" and attached the log file.

I am having a lot of trouble uploading from the temp directory. On occasion, it works, but usually, I get this message: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/private/var/folders/pP/pPhxSiXIHoaKII1Ca-wvEU+++TI/-Tmp-/S10/bth_frame30.jpg (No such file or directory) I know the path is good because I can do a send mail command and attach the file using the same variable. I can also see the file in the directory. Are the plus signs the problem? I am using version 1.532

Thanks for your response - but I checked in Safari security settings, and java is enabled. Still getting the red x instead of the upload button. This is on Mac OSX 10.4.10. Adding style=noapplet does make the red x go away, but the limitations you described above are not desirable.

Which version of Java should I be using with Super Container? On my mac with my OSX v10.6.1 (Snow Leopard) I have Java SE 6 and that seems to work just fine. But on my client's mac - they have Tiger and Java J2SE.5.0 On that machine, you don't get the upload button, just a red x. I saw on a different post. that adding ?style=noapplet to the URL will fix this by making Super Container work as if it is an older version. I did this, and it worked, but what are the repercussions? What about windows? What version of java is best, or does it depend on the operating system? Thanks. - Joe Gold Angel City Data

When I start up SuperContainer v. 2.631 on a mac, I get a message "config scanning disabled in this version of SuperContainer, please upgrade to a newer version." What does this mean? And don't I have the latest version? Thanks. - Joe

That fixed it. Thanks so much!!

Yes. Using the sample file that comes with Super Container, there is a list view, with a web viewer on every row (record), and a detail view, with one large web viewer. When I switch to this detail view, the web viewer does not load, it's just a white box, it pauses for a bit, and then the program crashes.

I'm using Mac OSX v 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard) I downloaded the latest version of SuperContainer - v2_631, images seem to work in list view, but when I switch to a detail view, FileMaker crashes. This occurs using the sample file they provided as well as my own file.

Yes, I understand that. Here's how I had it set up in FM6 In my data file: findportal=if(found_records=total_records,0,1) found_records=status(currentfoundcount) total_records=status(currentrecordcount) in a separate file named constants, I have only one record. I have a number field named "one" which has the value of 1. Then I have a relationship where "find_portal" from the data file = "one" from the constants file Then I have a portal with a "show all contacts" button on it. When the found set is less than the total number of records, the "show all contacts" button is visible. When the found set equals the total number of records, the "show all contacts" button disappears. Here's how I had it set up in FM7 In my data table: findportal=if(found_records=total_records,0,1) found_records=get(foundcount) total_records=get(totalrecordcount) in a separate table named constants, I have only one record. I have a number field named "one" which has the value of 1. Then I have a relationship where "find_portal" from the data table = "one" from the constants table Then I have a portal with a "show all contacts" button on it. But the portal is not disappearing when the total records equal the found records. What's really odd is that when I move to a different record the button does disappear, but when I move back to the original record, the "show all contacts" button incorrectly returns. Since the number of records in the found set has nothing to do with what record I am on, I would expect the appearance or disappearance of the portal to be the same throughout all the records. But that is not the case. Anyone have any ideas?

In FM6, I used to use the disappearing portal trick described on page 414 of "Special Edition: Using Filemaker Pro 5". Basically you use a portal to make buttons and fields diappear or reappear based on a relationship. I can't seem to make this same bahvior work on FM7. I'm trying to make a "show all contacts" button disappear when the user is viewing the complete set of records, but when the user is viewing a smaller found set, the "show all contacts" button would reappear. Any idea what I may be doing wrong? Or is there a change in behavior in FM7?

I tried your suggestion: http://user:password@myhost:80/fmp?... It worked fine on my home computer with no firewall. But when I tried it from the big corporation with the firewall, it gave me the same error #718. Bummer. But your second statement makes me wonder if I'm more naive than I think about how this whole xml thing is supposed to work. I've got a database of addresses. I export the records using xml to a file which I upload to my website. Then my customers update their database by importing from the http address that this file resides. Except for my firewall problem, this is working great. Is this the way it's supposed to work? I am not using the web companion at all. I am also not exporting to a http address. I am certainly not providing 24 hour filemaker web service (as you said.) I simply put the file on my website, and they can access it whenever they want. No filemaker server is needed for that. Can someone please let me know if I am missing a big piece to this puzzle?

Thanks. I tried adding the open URL script step. The browser window opened no problem, and the internet connection was fine. I switched back to filemaker, and continued with xml import, and it did not work. The error code I am getting is 718.

I just purchased Developer 6, and I see that it is v3. I thought filemaker was up to v4, and v4 has certain fixes that I need to incorporate into the runtime that I am selling. Can developer be upgraded to 6.0 v4??

Is there any way to hide the import dialog box? I am using FM6 to import an XML file from my website, and the dialog box says "importing from ..." and specifies my web address. I do not want my users to know the exact web address that this data is coming from. Can I hide the dialog? I tried freezing the window first but that did not work.

Yes, my users will use all types of printers. The examples I gave are the two printers I happen to own. I have solved the problem by first doing a stored page setup with no dialog box, and then immediately following it with an unstored page setup with a dialog. I then pop up a message that says please choose your printer and hit OK, but please do not change any other settings. By starting off with the stored page setup, I at least make sure that the orientation and the quantity (current record or browsed records) is correct. Of course, the users could change all that, but hopefully my warning message will prevent them from doing that. Then when the actual print command is performed I do it without a dialog box. This was important to me because my particular script is written so that when you print twenty letters, you are actually printing the current record twenty times (each time moving to the next record), and not printing the records being browsed. Making the user hit print twenty times was not acceptable.

I have a runtime solution with some complicated print scripts. I print without a dialog box because I do not want my users choosing the wrong options. But now some of my Windows users have told me that they have two printers connected to their computer and they cannot switch between them. For some reason, changing the default printer does not change the printer that the runtime deafults to. I am using two USB printers - one an HP Laserjet 1100, and the other an HP Deskjet 640C. No matter what I do, it seems to want to stay with the Deskjet. I even added a script called "Change Printer" which basically prints a test page and opens the print dialog box. When the dialog box opens, I choose the laser printer. The test page prints fine on the laser printer. But then when I choose a normal print script without a dialog box, it goes right back to the deskjet. Anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

No, I had previously deleted the footer. It is not grayed out. I am able to select the footer, and hit OK, but when it shows me the list of parts, footer is missing. The parts I currently have are title header, header, and body.

I have a label layout in which I deleted the footer because I thought I didn't need one. Now it turns out I do need the footer. I have repeatedly gone to part setup and tried to create a footer, but for some reason it won't let me create one. I have also tried to drag the part icon on the the status bar onto my layout, and selected footer as the part I wanted, and that also is not working. Anybody have any thoughts?

I use Secure FM. It works quite well in allowing you to gray out any menu choice you would like. When you gray it out, the keyboard shortcut also stops working. On windows and mac OS 9, you can actually remove an entire window. Unfortunately, this does not work on mac OS x. On mac os x, the menu cannot vanish, it just gets grayed out. Secure FM can also remove toolbars and the status bar. I have not tried Menu Control although the idea of being able to link any menu item to a script, and link keyboard shortcuts to a script is very exciting to me.