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That's great. I look forward to seeing it. In the meantime, though, is there a way to fill in forms without POSTing or GETting? Just to fill out the forms on the page would be kind of cool, don't you think? Thanks, again.

I have created a button to insert an object and it works beautifully. BUT, when I create a runtime solution, the button either does not work or it brings up a "record your voice" thing. Any ideas on what's happening? BTW, I'm running this on XP and the runtime is in Kiosk mode, if that makes a difference.

I have the FMP 8.5 Advanced edition and I'd like to make a runtime solution that doesn't have the sidebar on the left (so users can only see the navigation I've provided). I noticed that the demo files that came with FMP did not have this sidebar but I can't figure out how to get rid of it (either in runtime or on the guest account). Any ideas?

Peter, this is a great find. I've tested it (on IE) and gotten it to make many colorful blank web pages. I am wondering, is there a way to make this idea help me populate fields that already exist on a webpage? I want to use the WebViewer to populate the fields in a form but the form uses the POST method, which doesn't allow me to paste things into the URL (not successfully, anyway). I would love it if I could simply populate the fields and only have to click on the submit button. Is there a way to do this with the method you've provided here? (or any other way you can think of?). TIA -Peter (that's my name, too).

Andy, I have the same question. Is there a way to populate forms on the web-page without hitting and "submit" information? It is easy to get the form and field ids from a web-page and this would be a very useful option. TIA.

Noob question here. How do i create a button that'll take me to the last page I came from? I have a page that users might access from anywhere within the process and I need the button to take them back to where they came from. thanks in advance.

Is there some way to trigger validation by entering/leaving a field? This is a check-out system and the problem is that the only thing the employee does is tab to another field and choose their name from a list. If a person wants to check out only one item, there is no reason for the employee to do anything that would unlock the record. I suppose if all else fails I could create a dummy button that the employee pushes/clicks to "check the item out." That way it would do nothing if the item were not already checked out and return the message if it were. I'd like to avoid that, though, if it's at all possible. Thanks for your input.

I have a validation I've created on more than two fields (thanks to an FMI tip) and it works great, but I would like the validation message to appear (or not appear) as soon as those two fields are filled in. Currently, it waits until I finish filling out the record and try to go on to another, which doesn't work too well (if people don't need to create another record, then they don't get the validation message). I put the DupeCheck field immediately after the two fields it's checking in the Tab order but got the same result. Any suggestions?

All right, I've read a number of posts and it appears as if Dreamweaver and FMU might not be the best solution for hosting an on-line database, but they're what I've got so I'll ask anyway. I have a number of files I've adopted for a school of Ed website. All of the departments in the school have the same or similar templates. For a support sight, I need make some FMP databases accessessible within the template. I would like them to appear in list format (which is not an option in FMP's web publishing), if at all possible. I am working with FMP and dreamweaver on my Mac Jaguar machine but will upload the DB files to the school's Microsoft 2000 server with IIS turned on. FMU is on the MS machine, not my Mac. To my discredit I am neither a programmer nor an expert so I don't currently know and CDML, XML or even SQL. Is this going to be something that I can manage or am I dreaming? If I am dreaming, will you let me keep on dreaming and tell me how to connect these two programs anyway so they'll work for me? Thanks for all your expertise and suggestions.

Hey, that's a great idea, and it works well (with Vaughn's "show all" input). But it only works well for 1 record. I need to do some sort of a loop that gets the omitted record for each find and puts it into some sort of running talley of omitted records, then, at the end, shows all the omitted records (the last record of each item). Could I do this by saving the omited record's individual RecordNumber into an array and then show each record of that array when finished? And, if so, how do I make that array? (I really don't understand how to use repeating fields very well, if that's how). thanks for everyone's expertise.

Hi all, I've got a file that I use as a list that other files access. It contains each possible item for checkout. e.g. if there are 10 Hyperstudio CDs available for checkout there is a record Hyperstudio1, Hyperstudio2, Hyperstudio3, etc. Now I want to be able to print off a sheet of everything available for checkout, but I only want the last record to show on this sheet. That way we can see which items are available for checkout and how many without actually having a line for each record. How do I do a find for each item and get only the highest number of that particular item to show? Thanks.

I have a number of files linked together. I'd like to be able to create a back button that takes you to the last file you were in. I thought I could do this by creating a global field that contains the last file (updated by putting Status(CurrentFilePath) into the global before leaving the page) and then opening that file. However, the "open" file command doesn't have the option to open a file using a field value; it just asks for the specific file. Is there some way to do this?

IS there some way to include a tool tip on a button? That is, when you roll over a button, is there a way to make a field appear where you're at telling you what that button does?

Sorry, I did mean "window", not "screen." I'm using the toggle function, but I still would like to know if there's a way to set the position of the window on one's screen. This shouldn't be too difficult, if FMP's included the capability. All I would need is Status(CurrentScreenSize)

Is there a way to set the screen size and position of a window upon opening? By position, I mean position in relation to the screen itself. Thanks.