"special" characters in FM7 HTML export

[NewsPipe]

Hello FM folks. Am I the only person so far to have need of HTML exports from FM7 that use special characters (euro symbols, accents, that kind of thing)? It seems that while FM6 was quite happy to encode such characters as proper HTML entities, FM7 just doesn't bother, which is a real problem if you want to turn exported data into web pages... Does anyone know of a useful workaround for this? A plugin, even? FileMaker themselves are characteristically unhelpful - not sure it had even occurred to them that this feature might be worth including. Thanks for your help.

[The Shadow]

It appears the GetAsCSS() function in the calculation engine does some of this - I only tried the euro symbol, but it is encoded. The GetAsSVG() function encodes it also, but I'm not sure what SVG is. ;^)

I would also suggest you report this as a bug if it worked correctly in FM6,

[Lee Smith]

Shadow,

Many more of us would benefit from you posts if you don't use abbreviations for the functions, especially those that are new or have been renamed in version 7. I for one don't have the ability to open v7 yet, but I still want to read and learn about it anyway.

TIA

Lee

[rogermax]

Actually, Lee, those are not abbreviations. Those are the names. Here are a few others:

GetAsCSS function; GetAsDate function; GetAsNumber function; GetAsSVG function; GetAsText function; GetAsTime function; GetAsTimestamp function; GetField function; GetNextSerialValue function; GetRepetition function; GetSummary function

[The Shadow]

The "CSS" stands for "Cascading Style Sheet", which I believe is an HTML-usable format, running it on a piece of text results in:

GetAsCSS("Sold for 82

[Lee Smith]

Thanks Roger,

I had been able to figure out everything except the ones that were used in the original post. Even the Tech Articles haven't covered these two yet.

Thanks Shadow for help clearing these two up some too.

I just spent all morning trying to download the V7 User guide in an attempt to learn about these new names, unfortunately, it keeps messing up. I will keep trying though.

Lee

p.s. I wonder why this page has gone bonkers with this Shadow's post?

[The Shadow]

I'm not sure what you mean by "bonkers"?

I wrapped the HTML/XML with the <code> UBB tag, to try to reduce confusion.

[Lee Smith]

Hi Shadow,

I don't think you did anything wrong, I was just pointing out that this page runs off the monitor. Usually this is caused by a Non broken line like you get with a real long URL that is paste in. Your post, as far as I can see, didn't have a line like that in it.

Lee