TerribleToll

I think I have pinned the problem down now, but don't know how to deal with it. I have the following in a script: Set Field [Text1; GetLayoutObjectAttribute ("page1";"content")] The problem with it seems to be that the browser window refreshes just before the step runs. This means that the webpage it refers to has not completed loading up and the only information it can access is the URL. I have tried putting in a Pause step and even a loop, which delays the script, but not the refresh which still happens just before the step. Does anybody know if there is any way I can prevent this happening or store the contents of the WebViewer without causing a refresh? Anatole

OK - well I have this working now. Append the data to the URL address for the page and then use JavaScript to Get the data. However, I now have another issue, which is the one of getting data back to FileMaker from another web page. I have used the new GetLayoutObjectAttribute script step to access the contents of the web viewer. It works fine using FileMaker on the network, but when I access the database using IWP through a browser the wretched script only retrieves the URL of the web page in the web viewer and not the HTML content. Anybody have any ideas why this might be happening? I believe I am using the latest version of FM server advanced (8.0v4) and it does the same trick using different browsers. thanks for any hints

My online database works swimmingly using IWP (well...sort-of), but I would like to take one piece of data from it and pass it through to a webpage form. Does anybody have an idea how this might be possible. Could I possibly use the ?XXX format to append the data to the URL for the page? Has anybody tried this before? Thanks in advance for any thoughts. P.s. Conversely, it would also be great to be able to accept data back.

Thanks for that. FileMaker IWP appears to follow the default website port as set in the OSX Server Admin, - when I change that it seems to follow. At last - one small step.

Thanks for that - Anatole

Thanks for the reply - the FM community has been a bit silent on this issue. So it is more-or-less what I thought the problem was. Any ideas how you can change the port in Apache?

Does anyone have any experience in trying to tie up these two bits of network garbage, so they can talk to each other? All I want to do is spit out a total price from the FMpro server IWP, feed it over to ePDQ and then receive back the payment confirmation from their Customer Payment Interface system. Any ideas, advice or should I just jump in the river right now? cheers- Anatole

Does anyone know how to change the port for IWP in FM Pro Server advanced? Strangely it is missing from the manual ... but then again so are most things, so maybe it is not so strange after all. It is easily done in FMPro adv! thanks in advance - Anatole

Only really interested in the latest versions of Firefox. It seems to work OK now that I have put in an opening for port 16080 in the router firewall. Don't know why, but it seems to work better. Anyway, next week I move the whole thing to a better server with a fixed IP, so it will be a whole host of other problems. Thanks very much for your input.

Thanks for taking a look. I seem to get the same trouble without the port number specified. Have you tried it using Firefox? That is what my client uses and they can't access it. What's database visibility BTW? No mention of it in the manual. Besides I was concentrating on trying to make it visible at the moment, then I can make it safer once it works fully. cheers - Anatole

Opening a PDF (or image) in a container feild is simple. Just assign a button to the field triggering a script to Open URL on the File Path.