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Wow, Thanks for the detailed description Steve. INLINE ACTIONS look very handy. I took your advice and looked at the access.log in another reader. I had been just clicking on the log and it would open in Console, which only displayed one week, the most recent, at a time. I opened it in Textedit and all the info was there. Great! Darryl

Hi Steve, Thanks for the advice. I checked again today and again the Access.log is only showing April 22 to April 29. I wish I had your problem of the logs becoming too large. Any suggestions where I could find out more about FMU and Access.log settings? I have searched FMForums but find no indication of a solution. As for your suggestion: "As for the record tracking, you may be able to use an INLINE ACTION to auto-log the hit or increase the hit count of the record from your detail page." I am not sure what you mean exactly but I will look into INLINE ACTIONs.

It seems that the web log (access.log) that the Web Companion produces records activity for one week and then starts over again. Is this normal activity or have I set up something improperly? Shouldn't it accumulate beyond one week? Also, is their an easy way to sort out Filemaker served pages so I can find out which records are accessed most often? I am using Sawmill as a web analyzer but it seems to lump all FMPro? calls together. Thank you, Darryl Burgwin Citizenship Studies Media Lab Calumet College, York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada FileMaker Version: 6 Platform: Mac OS X Jaguar

Why French? Toronto and Canada are both Native American words. Darryl

Hi, How can I have a different page load in a particular frame on the index (main) page each time the site is accessed? I would like to create the effect where a viewer sees a different set of 4 images every time they enter the site. Each image has a FMPro link which appears in the lower frame when activated. All together I will have about 20 pages (4 images per page). Now these images overlap, are different sizes, have rollover effects and links to another frame on the index page, so I have to change hard coded pages and not just the images on one page. The order of these pages can be random or sequential. Is there any way to cycle through pages like this. Thanks for any advice in advance. Darryl Burgwin Graduate Programme in Sociology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hi Unable and Vaughn, Thanks for the advice. For now, I have followed Vaughn's first method of using a separate confirm page which sends the email. I have Filemaker sending emails but the problem you note does exist. Unable's suggestion is ingenious but I cannot get it to work. I set up the refresh format page with the mail instructions set up as hidden form items. I always receive an error, however. While troubleshooting I removed the meta refresh from the page and included a submit button. If I click the submit button mail is sent and the proper record then appears as a reply. But I do not benefit from the automatic refresh. My question, how do I encode the equivalent of submit into a hidden form item so that the refresh actually sends the mail? I hope this is somewhat clear. Thanks, Darryl Burgwin Graduate Programme in Sociology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hello, I have an Add format file into which people type their personal info and submit it to a database. There is a text field for an email address included in the form. I would like to be able to add this address to the database and have an email automatically sent to that address when the submit button for the add form is clicked. I have consulted the CDML reference and can not see how to have the email text field act as a -Mailto form and a form that adds the email to the database field at the same time. Is this possible? I have tried incuding the -Mailto function as a hidden item and included [FMP-field: Email] as the email address but I think the problem is that the email address does not yet reside in the email field of the database. Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I would ask, however, that if someone feels compelled to tell me to check the CDML Reference Databse they resist since I have looked at it and tried many variations based on the tags they list to no avail. If someone can help me combine the Add and the email function in one format file that would be great. Thank you Darryl Burgwin Graduate Programme in Sociology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hi Jeff, Thank you for providing the script. I knew there had to be ways around the problem. I don't know if I will use this or not but I will definitely play with it a bit. i might use the bold, italic, paragraph and links markup so people can work on their submission before they up-load and then i will have Filemaker display the result in Raw encoding. I also want people to be able to edit their contribution online and I will have to see how Filemaker handles the html Code when they do that. I may be asking to much from the contributers, however. Darryl Burgwin Graduate Programme in Sociology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anatoli, I am not asking the impossible, I am asking if something is possible or not. You have given me two answers (and I thank Unable for pointing out the first one which I missed upon first reading). First, you say I can include HTML tags (<b></b>) in the uploaded text and use RAW formatting to get Filemaker to publish it as styled text. Second you say web forms cannot handle styles in any way and that I am somewhat misguided to think that they might. I will try the first suggestion. If it does work for me I will be very happy. If it doesn't I move on to Plan B. Thank you for your assistance. Darryl

Hi, Found the answer in another thread (create another calculation field in the DB which determines if the field in question is empty or not and use this field in the Search string). Darryl

>u need to show "styled text" for users while they are inputing something you can use some CSS so >their entry will "look" styled (italics,bold,spaced...etc.) but you record it and display it how you like. Hi again, No, what I need to be able to do is have formatted text entered into a web page which then shows up in Filemaker with formatting intact. This way contributers can upload there writing, as is. Then, when i get Filemaker to pulish the field with the formatted text, said text will appear on the web with its (basic) formatting intact. I am mainly interested in reatining italics and bold. If this is impossible I will have them send me word files which I will then cut and paste directly into a database. this will maintain formatting but the contributers will not be able to upload and revise as they like (at least not without my help). I hope this is a bit more clear. Darryl

Hi, I have a Field, "Status" which has two radio buttons, "accepted" and "not accepted." When records are added to the database neither option is selected. I then go through the submitted records and click one or the other. I was wondering if there is a way to select the records with an empty field (with neither "accepted" nor "not accepted" selected) in a CDML URL so I can show all of the new records in a display page. I thought I could use: &Status="" Where the empty double quotes would act as a null value. This has worked for me in a pop-up menu in the past. Will I have to use an FMP-IF statement to accomplish this? Below, I have included an URL which works in another situation. The only thing I would like to change is the "&Status=yes" part. FMPro?-DB=CSMLCalendar.fp5&-Format=calresults2.html&Status=yes&CurrentDateTest=0&-SortField=Month&-SortOrder=descending&-Sortfield=Day&-Sortfield=Year&-max=5&-Find Thanks, Darryl

>entry into FM is always plain txt Hi, Leb i Sol Thanks for the direct answer. That is what I thought. Darryl

Yes, HTML should eschew complex formatting. But surely it allows italics and underline when needed. There are HTML tags for this. We are not talking about email which, I agree, should ideally be in plain text. But HTML does allow basic styles and all I need to know is how to get styled text into Filemaker via a CDML web form. Filemaker itself will publish styled text as HTML if I use [Field: Fieldname, Format] as I found out last night while seaching this list. So, does anyone have an answer to my initial question? Is it possible, or not possible, to send styled text to Filemaker via a web form field in CDML format file? Thank You, Darryl

Unable, Thank you for your response. Well, I cannot get past the fact that whenever I place text in a form field on the web page all styles are stripped out. I thought I would ask people who had been there before I started a time consuming trial and error approach. My thinking is going along these lines: is it possible to place tags, html or something else, in the inputted text and have Filemaker interpret these as styles? I do not know and have been unable to find any info on the issue via web searches of pertinent sites. Again Thanks, Darryl

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to add styled text (underline, bold, italic) to a Filemaker Unlimited database using a custom web page "add" format file. Or, is it only possible to send plain text through a web form? I would like our contributers to be able to enter their own written text directly into the DB but fear that all styles will be lost. Thank You