URL bug in Filemaker Developer v3 upgrade?

[AbsoluteVoice4u]

I upgraded Developer to 7.0v3 from 7.0v2 yesterday and suddenly url's no longer open up. They worked perfectly prior to the upgrade. I use the goto URL and all I get now is a blank page. Is there a bug in the v3 upgrade?

[Reed]

I have checked this on 7v3 on Windows XP SP2 and on MacOS 10.3.7, and it works for both.

[dwins]

With the Open URL script, FM puts an extra slash after the .com. Many Web sites don't mind and open up fine. Others, such as Yahoo URLs, don't open until you delete the extra slash.

I'm new to FM at v 3 and don't know how this worked in prev versions. Apparently FileMaker is in no hurry to fix it.

Is there anything that can be done now to make it work?

[kiwiora]

I've found this bug only occurs where it's not a www address. I asked the same question and here are a couple of solutions.

If it's only one address you can save a local html page somewhere which automatically redirects.

Use SEND EVENT rather than OPEN URL. Make the calculation something like this:

 "iexplore.exe http://hostname/folder/folder/file.asp?parameter=" & Table::Field 

[kiwiora]

Found another way around it on Matt Petrowsky's [sp] site

To solve this issue, just use the hexadecimal equivalents of

their corresponding characters. This is known as URL Encoding

and is covered by RFC 1738.

You've probably seen a url where it uses %20 somewhere. That %20

is the hex number (minus the percent sign) of a space. For the

slash, that character is represented by 2f. So %2f will

translate into a slash character. Here is a calculation that

will allow you to reference a field and use its contents to

search Google.

"http://www.google.com" & "%2f" &

"search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q="

& SearchValue & "&btnG=Search"

Where you have a field named "SearchValue".

[AbsoluteVoice4u]

Never ceases to amaze me that there are so many intelligent, nice, helpful people on this foorum.....ma hat's off to you.

Thank you.

[AbsoluteVoice4u]

Ok I understand your post..........and thank you...........BUT, what could I do if I have a field that will house different web page addresses for different records?....is there a way to get around the "bug" so that in each record I could click a button that would have a script open up that particular fields web site?

[Barbecue]

In your Open URL script step, use the "Specify" button, and you can specify a calculation. Use this to create a calculation that will convert the URL field for each record to its "fixed" version.

Or simply store the fixed version of the URL in a field in the table, and use the Specify option to select that field.

[Anthony R.]

This problem is causing serious heartburn between my boss and I. Is there any way to down rev? I'd rather do that.

[Howard LeCanard]

The problem with a down rev is that in v2, the Open URL script step converts all letters to lower case. Unfortunately, you can't win.