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Hi,

I'd like to share reports with users through my web interface. Ideally, I would be able to have them trigger a script which allows them to download a .tab file exported from FMP. I've heard of the problems with using FM scripts on the web, and I was going to risk it but I haven't been able to get the report to download to the user's computer anyway.

Anybody have any brilliant ideas regarding how I could get data to my users through the web?

Thanks,

Amy

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Hi, Amadda! My guess is that the export will only export to the FM server you are running. Maybe you could have the script perform the export as a separate file to a public-ly accessible location on the server (Web folder?) and then you can have a link to that file on your web page that they could then download using their web browser.

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Hi, though I've always come down on the side of "no script" on the web I gotta confess to using one to do just this - I have a database with an "export these records" button, which runs a find-and-export script and a "get the records" button which runs a simple Javascript that opens a window of the directory that the records are exported to.

in the page header:

<HEAD><script language="JavaScript"><!--

function openAWindow( pageToLoad, winName, width, height, center) {

xposition=0; yposition=0;

if ((parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 ) && (center)){

xposition = (screen.width - width) / 2;

yposition = (screen.height - height) / 2;

}

args = "width=" + width + ","

+ "height=" + height + ","

+ "location=0,"

+ "menubar=0,"

+ "resizable=1,"

+ "scrollbars=1,"

+ "status=0,"

+ "titlebar=0,"

+ "toolbar=0,"

+ "hotkeys=0,"

+ "screenx=" + xposition + "," //NN Only

+ "screeny=" + yposition + "," //NN Only

+ "left=" + xposition + "," //IE Only

+ "top=" + yposition; //IE Only

window.open( pageToLoad,winName,args );

}

// --></script>

</HEAD>

------------ on the page:

<A HREF="javascript:openAWindow('http://www.mydomain.com/thepath/thefolder','win1',350,275,0)">get the files</A>

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this is a really easy way to do it.

If you had to send it to the user's computer, I guess you could have the export folder watched as a hot folder and run a script. On a Mac, it's an easy Applescript:

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on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving fileList

set ftpURL to "ftp://100.100.100.100/uploads/"

repeat with i in fileList

tell application "Finder" to set thisFileType to the file type of i

try

tell application "URL Access Scripting"

activate

upload i to ftpURL replacing yes

end tell

on error errMsg number errNum

display dialog (errNum as string) & ": " & errMsg

end try

end repeat

tell application "URL Access Scripting" to quit

end adding folder items to

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and I'm sure folk could suggest one for Windows, too. As these uploads would be independent of FileMaker they wouldn't count as "scripts on the web"

regards, jeff

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