Hello,

I have a run-time solution that I trying to make available for use from the CD, as well as offering an installer.

I have stayed away from any global fields, which I understand are not available from a locked disc. My problem is a container field that hold a PDF in each record. The solution works as planned except the PDFs are not available for viewing in the record, the container field is blank.

Is this at all possible? I found a thread which mentions a plug-in for creating some form of temp file on the hard drive, but can not find any information on such a beast. Would appreciate any assistance on this one...

Thanks for the help,

Mike.

global fields do work on a CD-ROM, in fact, they are the only CHANGEABLE fields (+ calcs/scripts referring to it). They are only reset when solution is closed to vale burnt in.

And you do not need a plugin to install a temp file, it's just a FileMaker file on the hard drive (C:temp.fp5 would do) to store some values between sessions, so user does not have to retype his Address every time he opens the solution....

As for the PDFs:

Make sure when you insert them to use relative paths only, and to a subfolder of your solution. It may (or not) be a problem if you create links by dragging the file to the container (thus using OLE) instead of the "insert graphic" command.

Well, I have been playing with this for few days and the problem is related to the read-only status of the files.

If I set the file properties to read-only for all the solution files, I can't double-click on the PDF to open it. As soon as I remove the read-only status then everything is OK. I did make a mistake in my first message. The field is not blank, there is an Acrobat icon in the container field.

Also, there do not seem to be an option to make a graphic use a relative path. I can make it a link but don't see any options to use relative paths.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike.

I have the same problem as you (and no solution).

Once the fmp file is burnt on the CD, it automatically get the read-only status: it is not possible to launch anymore the pdf file inserted in the container field.

Once the fmp file is downloaded on the hard disk, it looses its read-only status and is working fine.

My users don't want to download the files from the CD-ROM to their hard disk. So a solution to launch the pdf files from a read-only fmpro file is definitely needed.

Hope someone can help...

JYB