Help! Lasso can't see html code in FMP

[Lass O]

Hi:

I am having a problem with Lasso 6 retrieving html-encoded information from FileMaker Pro 6.

The lasso code in the html format file looks like this:

<P>[portal: 'AP2004CS'][field: 'AP2004CS::ct_html_HeadsPlusBody', -EncodeRaw][/portal]</P>

A sample entry from the field 'ct_html_HeadsPlusBody' is as follows:

<a href="http://handbook.school.edu.au/cgi-bin/univi.acgi?goto=HIS238" target="_blank">HIS238</a> Aboriginal History -- 4 pts<P>

What is then displayed by Lasso as a result is:

<P>HIS238HIS238 Aboriginal History -- 4 pts<P></P>

How can I get the <a href...> coding to be recognised? I have tried all the -Encode... tags, as well as the Encode_set tags suggested earlier by some kind folks here.

Any help appreciated

Lass O

[Steve T.]

Hi, Lass O! Since the Lasso folks seem to be out at the moment, I thought I'd offer some Lasso-ignorant help that may be completely wrong, but maybe better than nothing...

I just did a test in CDML and the [FMP-field:fieldname, raw] seemed to allow html tags to be placed in FM fields and it seemed to work fine on the web. The link tag I tried patially worked (showed up) but had problems actually linking because it was substituting curly quotes for straight quotes... but that's easily fixable. The <b></b> and <h2></h2> tags worked fine.

Maybe try using different HTML tags first to make sure that is correct. If that works, maybe you can narrow down the problem to <a href...></a>... like my curly quotes problem.

Of course FM CDML and Lasso are not exactly the same, but maybe this will get you a little further?

--ST