Bug? Open URL Case Sensitivity

[jasonwood]

It seems that in FileMaker 7 on at least Mac with Safari, a URL with capital letters will be converted to small letters before being sent to the browser. Is it just me? Other browsers? Other operating systems?

[Fenton]

No, it's not just you. Someone else posted about this. I replied with a work-around using AppleScript:

tell application "FileMaker Pro"

tell current record of document 1

set theURL to cell "theURL"

end tell

end tell

tell application "Safari"

activate

set the URL of document 1 to theURL

end tell

[Stick]

Sorry to hijack this thread...

How would that applescript translate to URL to use a mailto - i need to use this fix but have no experience of applescript.

I am getting the lowercase problem when it populates the email.

Thanks

[Fenton]

The "open location" command, in the Standard Scripting Additions, seems to do this.

open location "mailto:[email protected]"

Sets up an email in my default email app, just like FileMaker's Send Mail.

You can add other fields, and even lines, to a "mailto:", but you have to encode spaces and other things (remove any line break)

open location "mailto:"Fenton%20Jones"%20<[email protected]>?Subject=Hi%20there&Body=Hi!%0DHow%20are%20you%3F"

Otherwise you can use AppleScript to talk directly to your email client, to do just about anything. I have the SMTPit FileMaker plug-in (cross-platform), so I generally use that instead.

There's also a very nice little Scripting Addition at:

http://www.24usoftware.com/EmailOSAX

[Stick]

Thank you for the info.

I have just realised that the script step "Perform AppleScript" is not Instant Web Publishing (IWP) compatible.

Any one know of a different way - my clients aren't happy to send lower case emails