wavegirl

This is what didn't work: <FORM ACTION="FMPro" METHOD="post"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-DB" VALUE="helpdesk"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-Lay" VALUE="Form"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-format" VALUE="new_reply.htm"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-error" VALUE="new_error.htm" <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=email VALUE=""> <TEXTAREA NAME=problem ROWS=7 COLS=30 WRAP=virtual></TEXTAREA> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="-MailTo" value="me@mydomain.com"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="-MailFrom" value="[FMP-Field: email, raw]"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="-MailSub" value="Help Request"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="-MailHost" value="192.168.100.4"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="-MailFormat" value="[FMP-Field: problem, raw]"> <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="-New" VALUE="Submit"> The record gets added to the database but not emailed.......

I've been reading about sending mail while creating a new record. The way to do it is reported as: <input type="hidden" name="-MailHost" value="YourMailHost"> <input type="hidden" name="-MailTo" value="YourEmailAddress"> <input type="hidden" name="-MailSub" value="New Record Added"> <input type="hidden" name="-MailFormat" value="MailFormat.txt"> MailFormat.txt is a text file in your Web folder which can contain CDML tags, if you like. -- This is great as I've managed to get it right so far then, but what I want to do is have the value of the -MailFormat the same value as what a user inputs into TEXTAREA box on the form in the same page. Is this easily done? Any hints as to how? I think I'm just missing something simple (well hopefully, as I'm still a newbie).

Hooray for the search function and this forum! I had the same problem and it was driving me absolutely bonkers!

That was pretty much it, though I never did manage to get the path right, but as the DB was in the same folder as the html/cdml pages I stopped trying and just got rid of the path altogether, which worked. Now if I could only get the access privileges sorted so it actually creates a new record.... Thanks for the help, very much appreciated!

I'm trying to make a little helpdesk database that can be accessed through the company Intranet. In the filemaker database I have a date field which enters the date automatically and prohibits any other input. I want to be able to do this via the html/cdml interface as well. What I have is: <P ALIGN=right>date:</P> </TD> <TD> <P><INPUT TYPE=text NAME=date VALUE="" SIZE=30></P> Okay fair enough. So I tried putting the value in as [FMP-CurrentDate] but this only shows up as [FMP-CURRENTDATE] in the browser. If I try to remove the INPUT TYPE and just have it show up as the date it just shows up as [FMP-CURRENTDATE: short] - but even if this worked I'm not sure if it would update the date field in the database. In fact I can't get get the [FMP-CurrentDate] replacement tag to work at all. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? By the way I'm using the Claris HomePage 30 day demo to generate the CDML/HTML if that's any help.