My boss wants me to make a link from an image map to a specific field in a web-enabled database. I am not a programmer. Does anyone know if/how I can do this within FMP and web companion?

I hope I'm understanding you right: the database fields should provide the urls to the image map?? I guess if you call the page from an FMP action, then something like:

<MAP NAME=map1>

<AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS="0,30,50,50" HREF="[FMP-FIELD:field1]">

<AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS="0,0,50,20" HREF="[FMP-Field:field2]">

</MAP><IMG USEMAP="#map1" SRC="theimage.jpg">

.....would work, though I think it's a more reliable solution to chop the image up in a table and use individual HREFs delivered by FMP

jeff

Let me explain.

There will be an image map of a building layout. He wants me to carve up the image map (which I can do) and create links to individual fields in the database. For example, if someone clicked on the Room 1 section of the image map, it would go to the Room 1 field in the database.

Would the above action work for this?

When you say "it would go to the Room 1 field in the database," are you asking it to search the database to find Room 1, then display an HTML page using Room 1 data from the database?

If so, I would expect that a long URL that searches the database and returns the room template page, populated with Room 1 info, would be the answer.

Although I use Lasso rather than web companion, I expect it could be done with WC.

Here is an example of how I used it. Look at the link attached to each button, and attach a similar one to each slice of the image map.

http://www.flandersco.com/ElectricalSearch.html

Good luck!