showing a container via CDML

[pbucc]

Hi there. i have a solution that is very simple. i have 3 fields. firstname, lastname, and sound. the first 2 are text, the 3rd is a container that has sounds. i want to just show all the records in a portal. would i be able to have those sounds (quicktime) playable or linkable?

Peter

[The Bridge]

Hi Peter, Peter here:

Yes, what you want is totally possible. I made a solution for a client who wanted to be able to play tracks from audio CDs they were burning on a regular basis. In a portal to that file I had the descriptive text fields and a container field that, when clicked would Insert Movie() if empty or, if it had a sound within, play the sound. Look at the Go to Field (Select, Perform) to play the sound from within a script.

[Anatoli]

In CDML web page?

[The Bridge]

D'oh... forgot which forum I was in. Er, never mind.

[Jeff Spall]

Hi, it's a very simple solution that's been mentioned many times before, PROVIDING you get those pictures/sounds/movies out of the container, and just store them in a directory somewhere - doesn't even need to be the same server, which is probably a good idea if they are large.

Just have a field with the file name and use that to make a link.

Here's one where the link is actually a picture, again specified by FileMaker:

[FMP-Portal:relationshipname]

<A HREF="/filepath/filepath/[FMP-FIELD:relationshipname::the_file_name]">

<IMG SRC="/picturedirectory/[FMP-Field:relationshipname::picture_name]"

WIDTH=50 HEIGHT=50 BORDER=0 ALIGN=bottom><BR>[/FMP-portal]

naturally, you can deliver the path from a field if you have several directories.