Hi Stephen,
I went to your forum this morning to join... its a matter of "life or death", as in -- the death of my job! I hope this is the right area but something tells me its not...
HOWEVER - at the risk of being flamed and lambasted to a nice charcoal black.. here goes...
I need to convert filemaker 5 pro records of domains into a html output that puts the domains on the webpage as links, but also keeping them as simple listings in the db file.
Like so:
THISDOMAIN.COM - (this is the way the domain field text is entered and listed in the database - it has to be viewable in this format)
I need it to be outputted into another field for exporting as html so that it looks like this:
<a href="http://www.THISDOMAIN.COM">THISDOMAIN.COM</a><br>
This way our company's huge list of domains can be immediately formatted for appearance on a webpage without showing the "http://www." part. The html code above will make the domain appear as a link WITHOUT the html code. In other words, the domain name has to appear as a link on the webpage as just the domain name only.... "THISDOMAIN.COM" - and its a link.
Formatting each domain by hand in the company's portfolio is a humungous job because there are thousands...
I have no idea how to take a field entry, such as "THISDOMAIN.COM", and mesh it together to appear TWICE in another field with text before, inbetween, and after!! What a nightmare. My boss EXPECTS me to know this -- I can't find the info anywhere in the manual.
So the one field "DOMAIN NAME" holds this text = "THISDOMAIN.COM". Then it has to appear in another field, let's call it "HTML EXPORT" like this (I'll separate the html areas before, middle, and after the domain name)
BEFORE = <a href="http://www. MIDDLE = "> AFTER = </a><br>
which combines the text in the domain name field "THISDOMAIN.COM" in this html coding into another field that I can export and upload to a webpage:
<a href="http://www.THISDOMAIN.COM">THISDOMAIN.COM</a><br>
hope that makes sense!!!
If you could help me, I'd be grateful!! Blessings upon you!!!
Thanks!
Stephen
NO COMPANY NAME !!!
