danmcccomb

As I suspected, the upgrade wasn't the problem. I upgraded FileMaker and Web Companion this morning and it hung up at 1:30 pm according to the access log. I'll try the firewall fix next. Any other ideas, anyone?

We're using CWP, and IWP is turned off. Re: Upgrading to current version of Web Companion, looks like I neglected to upgrade the installation on the current machine. I did that this morning (FM 5.5v2, WebCompanion v4). Will let you know whether that does the trick.

I have a client that relies heavily on Filemaker for internal database needs. Some of those files also serve as the back end for web pages. FileMaker Unlimited 5.5 is installed on an iMac 350MHz with 512MB memory. The files are on a QuickSilver G4 with FileMaker Server 5. Both machines are in a server closet at their site with a T1 connection to the net. Both machines are running OS X 10.3 Panther. There are 91 web files in the web folder on the Unlimited machine. Perhaps 10 to 20 of those are dormant, out of date, or otherwise not active. There are 94 files open on FileMaker Server. One file is the launch file for FileMaker Unlimited 5.5. It opens a set of 25 files by means of a default layout which has related fields from these 25 files. Additional files are opened as needed when called by script steps or calculations. Fully deployed (run down the files and open every window, so everything is open) there are 48 files open. The fault we are concerned with is that periodically and irregularly, at least once a day, FileMaker Unlimited hangs up, displaying the spinning beach ball, and needs to be force quit and relaunched. At that time, the Activity Monitor on the web server machine shows the cpu fully occupied, with FileMaker using 66%-80% of the cpu (varies but basically using all the resources not used by other apps). Other applications and the OS are unimpaired. I have often started BBEdit, Activity Monitor, Console, Terminal, with no problem while FileMaker is hung up. FileMaker server is still OK, since other users in the office are not impaired by this fault. I have run many tests, and have found nothing wrong with the databases. I don't mean to say I'm satisfied that any of these issues are eliminated as the source of the problem. I'm obviously overlooking something. In addition to the tests: Discovered a very large resource file (1 record, 14Mb) which has a huge graphic in a container field on the layout it is set to open on. I rearranged it so the graphics were on a different layout. The hangups persisted over this last weekend. I found a forum thread that seemed to be a similar problem which was solved by adjusting a parameter called vnodes. Dunno what that is but I followed a recipe for adjusting this parameter larger, It had no effect. Any ideas, anyone?

Problem solved. After much trying to do figure out another way to do this, I discovered that intratag syntax requires dropping the fmp- prefix. So my code started working properly when I replaced {fmp-findvalueitem} with {findvalueitem}. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Steve. /dan

Interesting, I jumped on the Lasso bandwagon long enough ago that I never noticed that CDML had added inlines. Yay. So, I added that inline, and it's writing to my database, but not parsing the search term correctly. Apparently it doesn't like the curly braces format, but that's what I've seen in all the discussions on the thread of inlines (I'm getting {FMP-FindValueItem} added to the field, rather than the value itself). Here's my code: [FMP-CurrentFind] [FMP-InlineAction: -db=ela_hits.fp5, -lay=web, search_term="{FMP-FindValueItem}", -new] [/FMP-InlineAction] [/FMP-CurrentFind] Do I need to declare tokens somewhere along the way instead of trying ot drop in FMP-FindValueItem? /dan

I have a cdml page where users can enter a search term, which searches a fm5 database. I need to record the search term in a second database. How do I do it? I'm stumped. In Lasso it's a piece of cake, but cdml doesn't allow inlines... /dan

I have a web page that searches a database. I need to record the search term used in the search to a second database. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this with CDML. Any suggestions?