I've been asked to look into using FM as a method of cataloging quicktime movies on a web server. Basically someone looks up a match based on date, location etc, and the QT movie appears on the screen for them to watch. I've done a quick mockup which has presented two problems that I'm hoping someone can help with:

1. The system will host about 4Tb of movies, over several HDDs. I don't want to embed the movies into FM. Is there a way to make FM link to the file in question?

2. At the moment, when I click on the container in IE, it tries to download the picture, rather than play the movie. How do I make it play the movie.

Thanks

if your movies have a standard naming convention (movie1, movie2, movie3) and THAT data is stored in the database in a field, you can create a button that can be scripted to open the corresponding movie file in the browser via the openURL script step.

did i confuse you enough??

Hi Fred777, thanks for the post. I had already tried that with no luck. Seeing as you mentioned it I thought I'd try it again and it worked! Must have screwed up before.

Do you know of any good tutorial material for learning how to build filemaker into web pages. I would like to look at putting my own html onto the pages, but don't know where to start.

Thanks again

Check out www.fmwebschool.com for IWP and Custom Web Publishing books and tutorials.