Scripts online

[Jase]

Hi All,

I am new to both Filemaker and FM Forums.

I have a question to ask.

I have developed a solution for my work, including scripts (for email options and go to preview mode on reports).

I find that once I set the Web companion, that these function buttons containing these scripts are disabled.

I have search the help file on filemaker, with no luck.

Any ideas?:

Cheers,

Jase

[Vaughan]

Two issues:

1) Instant Web Publishing (IWP) only supports a limited set of script steps. I doubt that Send mail is one of them.

2) When you run a script through Web Companion, the script runs on the *server* not the computer of the person browsing the page. So even of you could send mail, the mail would always originate from the server.

It sounds like you need to investigate custom web publishing.

[ibiubu]

For your email one of the scripts that is supported in Instant Web Publishing is the go to url script. You can use this in instant web publishing. Just include the mailto: in the script description. then in instant, when you click on the button with this script, it will launch your email software with the appropriate information.

Preview mode is not one of the scripts supported in Instant web publishing. If memory serves me, only browse and table views are supported. One way around this might have to be to create a custom layout that is designed specifically to view correctly from the web. This layout may be designed in such a way that when users access the database from FileMaker then they use a different layout.

Larry