katstewart

Thanks again. I'd gone at it from the two ends - So I have my website (yes I do speak HTML), and have the form that the user would use designed from that end and I have my database which I've designed, and populated with the first set of sample data I guess from the HTML end I was expecting to collect values through the customer form then run a simple query like Select From Where And And Which is all it really needs to do Then get it to publish the results. And have come unstuck as I couldn't figure out the connector between the database and the web design. I'll have a look through the CDML Reference Database - (that is what I meant by reference, something central like a manual, rather that having to trawl through boards - and picking it up peacemeal, which usually leads to a different set of problems -) Kathleen

Thanks for repling. It doesn't really help. There is no mention of CDML in my Filemaker Pro 5 manual (AT ALL), and I don't know what it is. I'll have a read through the board, but is there a reference for this CDML thing, that is totally lacking from my manual

I'm trying to do something that should be simple, but because I'm a Newbie, I've got stuck, and can't make head or tail of it. Using filemaker pro 5.5 (for Mac) I'm trying to do a web page that customers can select options on a form to run a query to search a set of complex products and then produce the four closest matches from the database, sorting by price if possible. i've designed the form - have values which match values in the database Have database How do I get the two to "talk" to each other? I'm assuming it should be an SQL query but everything in the manual is about importing data into my database, rather than running queries from the web, to select and then publish Confused. I've been reading and trying to attack this for over a week and am nowhere I'm not a techie, so need simple answers Thanks K