URL Field

[schda]

Just started with FileMaker and was wondering if it possible to make use of html to include a link to a website within a field. I would like to include the web home page of clients and consultants in each record with a link that will launch my browser and take me directly to their page.

[Vaughan]

Use the "Open URL" script step.

[schda]

Thanks for your quick response Vaughan. I have tried the URL script, but it seems like the database will end up with a fair amount of scripts to get to all of the web sites, and as the records change, the database will get a bit "dirty" over time with dead scripts that have to be weeded out. Don't know much about html, but I thought using html would make a simple link to the individual web page.

[kenneth2k1]

When you set up the Open URL step, select it to use the value of a field. Then it will go to the url that is in your url field of that record.

[Vaughan]

No, you only need one script. Make sure the url is in one field, and the field contains only one, valid, complete address (including the "http://" part). The script opens whatever web site address is in the field.

Can't get any easier than that.

[schda]

Thanks all. Just what I needed.