IWP URL Button

[summertime]

Hello,

I was amazed to see that you can now render a complete FM Layout onto the web without having to use Custom Web. But have a couple of probs with it!

Does anyone know how to get a FM Layout to access an external URL that is a button on the FM layout and rendered on the IWP generated web page? My button works fine in FM but when I use the web button it just seems to refresh the page!

Also, how about embedding some HTML into the layout that could for instance specify a img src tag and place a calculated result as the src. I tried containers but they remove image proportions.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

David.

[caitlin]

Hi David,

Strangely enough I just posted a question about a similar project on the 'Using Filemaker Online' forum (I probably posted it in the wrong place)

Open URL question

So basically yes - it's easy to make a button (or even better a clickable container) that opens the URL of your image as a full size image. But I am having problems getting it to function reliably. Still waiting on any answers to this problem. (Can anyone here help?) I'm going to be experimenting a bit more at work today and will feedback.

The only thing I'm not clear on in your question is when you say 'rendered on the IWP generated web page' - An open URL will open the file/image on the same page but not WITHIN the FM layout.

[summertime]

Hi Caitlin,

With the 'rendered on the IWP generated web page', I just meant a IWP generated web page from a FM Layout. My button views and is clickable but seems to just refresh the page!

Good to see another in the same situation. I hope we can get it sorted.

Cheers,

David

[Duncan Ross]

I too am a new user trying to use IWP to create an online health and safety database. I would like a button on each record that when clicked, launches Acrobat to view PDF format documents.

I thought from reading that assigning an "Open URL" script would do it. But when I put in a valid full path url to the file, clicking the button opens a new frame with the FM homepage in it.

Any pointers to the direction to go in? I would have thought this would be a basic function included in FM7 as making an html link is so simple.

Cheers

Duncan

[Jordi]

Hi to all,

I am new user in this website, indeed to look for information on this subject.

Reading your interventions I am sure that is an error of the version.

I have read the crash logs of Instant Web Publishing and many resources of the own system are used to activate IWP.

The first time that I have used IWP I was testing a demo plug-in (UPLOADit 1.0 of www.comm-unity.net), in the demo-version of this plug-in (Preview FM7), unlike the version for FM6, upload image becomes from own layout and opens an external URL to fill up the form and upload an image, this worked!!

In any case I have not been able to repeat this operation...

Configuration of the number of port TCP for Instant Web Publishing?

Other conflicts?

It cannot be that it does not work, if is the simplest benefit that it can offer IWP!

I wait for an urgent update?

You can test this plug-in and you have luck... and verify that button URL works by halves.

[Jordi]

Hello again,

I have been working in this subject for my necessity, although I read that you are users of Windows (I use a Mac) is possible that the problem goes in same direction. I have used other navigators in addition to Safari (navigator by defect that I use), to see its behaviors.

The only one that works is Internet Explorer 5 (in Mac it is the last version).

With Netscape it appears the following message:

"This site you have been optimized for uses with Safari 1.1, Internet Explorer 5.1 or Internet Explorer 5.2. Using to another to browser to access this site is not recommended."

Although it appears Safari 1.1, does not work as Netscape but does not appear the message. With Opera no longer it appears neither the message nor the list of database published.

Cheers,

Jordi

[cellmaker]

Am just starting to experiment with 7 on the web. Many moons ago I did an FM/Tango project, but that's ancient history.

IWP rendering, for the most part, is really good. However...

I thought putting an "open url" link on a page would be the easiest thing in the world. I see I'm not the only one having a problem with this.

Can anyone shed any light on this? I can't get it to work in Safari or IE5 (both just seem to reload the same page). Firefox responds not at all. If this "direct" method doesn't work, are there any workarounds? Can you insert HTML into an IWP document?

Thanks from an IWP newbie.

[Fenton]

Amazing that no one seems to know the answer. I am also not able to figure out what the syntax for the link would be to open an image in its own window from IWP using OpenURL. I have tried most everything I can think of. As others say, I only get a screen refresh, that's it.

I'm doing this on a single computer, via localhost:591, if this is relevant. Mac OS X, Safari 1.2.2, FileMaker 7.0v2.

[Reed]

The open URL button works for me with IE 5.2.3 on 10.3.4 but not with Safari 1.2.2

On Windows the open URL script step works with IE 6

Mozilla (unsupported) seems unable to use any button-driven scripts, although the navigation area seems to work OK.

You'd think FMI would want to make IWP work with mozilla as it is standards-based and available for many platforms. This would really open up the utility of IWP for a wider audience.

[whaynes]

There's a technote at http://www.filemaker.com/ti/109239.html titled "Open Url Is Not Working When Used Via Instant Web Publishing" which explains that the Open URL script step won't work in browsers that have pop-up blocking enabled.

Does anyone know how to include a regular hyperlink "<a href=..." in a field so that it will show up as a hot hyperlink in the resulting IWP Page?

[Reed]

I've done this by just creating a button (open url) on the field and formatting the text as blue underlined.

You can't really put any custom html in an IWP page. It's all instant or all custom....

[Dave Garland]

I also had a lot of trouble getting a URL button to work in FM7 (to display a pdf associated with each record).

I used a button to run a script with a single OpenURL command. One field contained the filename I wanted to serve, and another constructed a url from that, for use with the OpenURL command.

It appears that there are some problems with the documentation of this command, at least that of the help screens. Unlike the examples they show, I could only get it to work if I omitted the "http://" from the url, because FM inserts that for you (this means that "file://", "ftp://", etc. are NOT web-compatible, at least via IWP OpenURL).

Also, I couldn't get it to work with urls that were on the same machine as IWP, in spite of the fact that the files were in FM's web folder. Apparently the IWP web server won't serve pages that way. So you have the option of running another webserver program in addition to IWP, or putting the files on another website.

I am very much a novice, so it is possible that there is a better way to do this, but that's what worked for me.

[Balder]

I hope this may help....

Put the dcouments you want to open in the WEB subfolder (or in another folder underneath the WEB Folder.

I use a global textfield called URLFIELD, fill it with the relative path (so to open john.jpg in the WEB folder : fill the textfield with /john.jpg) and create a script to open a url using field URLFIELD. Works fine for me in IWP...

ByeBye