Just wanting to know if I can have web addresses in regular fields display so that I can click them and launch the browser and visit the site.

Thanks

Create a field called 'URL'

Enter web address in field 'URL'

Create a script (and attach a button) called 'Go to Website' as follows:

Open URL [No dialog, "URL"]

Clicking on the button will launch default browser and will return the web site of address that was entered in 'URL'.

cool. thanks. new it would be easy!

Craig

You could also use the open url scripts to open files on your local machine with their native application.

Stu

Hi

Hmmmm. It goes to a website, just not the one that I have entered!

Craig

Do you know if using the Open URL script step is any more efficient than the Send Message step or even the External command of Tr-FileLaunch from the Troi File Plug-in for opening a file with its native app?

If you are talking to me, craig stewart, I don't know what any of that meant :-) all I want is to launch websites from with in a database field. the proscribed method dosn't work, at least it dosn't go to the site that is entered in the URL field, it goes to another site that so far as I know, I have never visited before, which is shown below:

http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=netw8744&s=www.URL.com

Craig

I have discovered that if I enter the the web address in to the script , Open URL [No dialog, "HERE"] then it goes to the website entered there. But that would make it go to the same website everytime no matter what record I am looking at. So I think that there needs to be something else in the script that makes it realise that it should go to the website address in contained in the URL field. Just wish I knew what was missing! Instead it thinks that URL is the website, this domain does not exist but seems to be owned by the company domainpark which is that site comes up.

You enter any valid url in the field url and then use Open URL [No dialog, url].

You don't want to enter "url" into the text portion of the step, because, as you've seen, it is taken literally. You want to select the url field from the 'Field Value' portion of the step, so that whatever value is in the field is used as the url.

Using open url just seems cleaner to me and you dont have to use any plug-ins.

Stu

Here is a picture of the Script as created

What is the field URL formatted as?

The URL must start with "http://....." The address that it is taking you seems to be a default search address when a unrecognized domain is requested.

If entering the "http://" is akward for the user, you can create a calc field that adds this to the web address and then use that calc field as the go to URL in your script. This way your calc can strip off spaces and clean up the wen address with such formats as

"http://"&(Substitute, URL, " ", "")