charles huff

I would use something like 360 works remote scripting plugin... i quote their web site... "Creating a PDF in IWP Tutorial Video This video tutorial looks in depth at the functions and scripts behind making a PDF from a browser in IWP and FileMaker Pro using RemoteScripter. This works around incompatible script steps in Instant Web Publishing and allows a user to generate and save a PDF report right from their browser" hope that helps...

--360 works has a product called mirror sync

--you can restrict the file type stored in a container in filemaker 12 (at least for external storage)... --you could look at the plugins offered by 360 works that operate on pdf files... they all have trial versions... --if all else fails you could ask them to custom build you a plugin, they did something similar for me that allowed me to test for signed vs. unsigned documents. sorry, I don't know how to help more than that....

I don't know if this will help you. it's what I did. Create a new DB with no records. Under security apply the same username and password that is used on the hosted file. In the scripts create a startup file with "Open File". under specify add the filemaker data source. Now under file options set this script to run on first open window. I also have the script close the file. Now each user can open the hosted db after I send them the opener file by email. They install directly from mail to the ipone as a local file. should the host connection time out they can tap cancel and then tap the opener file for quick login.... In my case I also pass multiple parameters to control what happens after the hosted file is opened, but that was not what you asked for.

one way you could work this is with 360works remote scripting plugin. you can then dedicate only one machine to process/export the xml. That machine is then the only one connected to the xml processor machine. possibly even the same machine. I have had good results with the plugin and some applescript thrown into the mix... You can get a trial from 360works, test it all out to satisfaction before purchase. Can't beat that. Charles

I once did something very similar with ovolab's Phlink. Their software is very cool and with it you can initiate an outgoing phone message. It requires the use of their own hardware (modem) and works with Mac. Google them, and ask if Phlink can do exactly what you want, just to be sure, before you buy it.

I setup a script, Evaluate(Quote(yourFieldNameHere)) and set an onObjectValidate trigger. just something else to try....

<So here is what would really help to know: FM version and updater - OS version - 11 yes/no it works - 12 yes/no it works> Filemaker Pro Advanced 12.0v3 OS SnowLeopard 12 no it does not work as 11 does. Filemaker Pro Advanced 11.0v4 OS SnowLeopard 11 yes it does work as expected. two things I noticed. 12 is noticeably slower to respond. the conditional format on the field is not triggered by a change until the field is re-entered. hope that helps you. I was new to the technique. I have admittedly poor understanding of Let statements. I also have not used PatternCount without the '>0' at the end. My attempts to fix the let statement broke it. I can logically conclude that it was never broken and that the let statement is not the problem. The problem seems to be exactly as you stated. The screen refresh order of events has been changed in such a way that the conditional is now evaluated 'on enter' instead of 'on change'... This is a very interesting technique, too bad I won't get to use it. I am only now getting used to merge fields and conditional formatting... Charles

I guess this is the wrong forum for this question, but for what it's worth I will share my work around... I turn off iCal server, then restart the snow leopard server after shutting down fmsa gracefully. After the reboot (iCal server is off and can't grab the ports) Safetynet gets the port 8030 that it needs. Then i can restart ical server manually with no ill effects... I just have to remember to do this each and every time the server is rebooted for any reason. This way I can keep safetynet plugin working and still have my iCal server running as always. Charles I guess this is the wrong forum for this question, but for what it's worth I will share my work around... I turn off iCal server, then restart the snow leopard server after shutting down fmsa gracefully. After the reboot (iCal server is off and can't grab the ports) Safetynet gets the port 8030 that it needs. Then i can restart ical server manually with no ill effects... I just have to remember to do this each and every time the server is rebooted for any reason. This way I can keep safetynet plugin working and still have my iCal server running as always. Charles

safetynet uses port 8030 and somehow my ical server grabs it... does anyone know how to stop this conflict besides disabling ical server? Thanks, Charles charles.huff@comcast.net

The work around I have found is to make a regular container field.ScribeDocLoad("http://xx.xxx.xx.xx/SuperContainer/RawData/Rights/" & Timesheets::__Serial & "/" & Get(AccountName) & "/" & Year(Get(CurrentDate)) ) will fail as noted above. BUT, SCGetContainer( "Rights/" & Timesheets::__Serial & "/" & Get(AccountName) & "/" & Year(Get(CurrentDate))) and ScribeDocLoad(Timesheets::RightsDocument) WORKS! it just takes longer to complete....

SC ver 2.76 - Scribe v 1.115 - fmp 11.2 - java for mac 10.6 update 3... it seems the drag and drop feature works only once per filemaker session. This may be the underlying problem... Downgrade to Scribe v 1.02 did not help...also the sequence of upload, extract data, delete file, extract data fails to change any data until the fmp client is restarted.

Filemaker is caching supercontainer filed pdf's (or scribe) somehow. Drop pdf into SuperContainer webviewer, file uploads, click extract and data is populated into filemaker fields. Change pdf, drop again to overwrite, data is on server verified, but click extract and the old data is pushed into the fields again. quit filemaker, go back and do just the extract script and new data is written to filemaker, even when I skip the upload step via the webviewer... How to make Filemaker flush the cache??? Close reopen file won't work. only quit filemaker does it.

I had the exact SAME problem. both answers above are correct. I solved it with: tar -cvf plugname.fmplugin.tar plugname.fmplugin to get the correct stuffit format for mac, copy to server and then sudo chown -R fmserver:fmsadmin /Library/FileMakerServer/Data/Database/AutoUpdate and finally I had to set all to read and write permissions. be careful with file paths as I may have some typo here... I initially used the z switch in tar by mistake. The -1 error seems to be a catch all and is very hard to debug... Thanks for all the help. charles

SuperContainer is hosted on fmps9. Sometimes Delete Button fails. Sometimes works but changes on server not showing in other layouts until restart of fmp client. I updated a while back but did not find this error before now. I shut down server and verify and repair did not help. Should I re-install supercontainer? I installed and registered 2.6 didn't help...I am using style noapplet+nodelete+readonly, if that helps. thanks Charles charles.huff@comcast.net