Ivan Tan Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 i have tried using open url in Filemaker 7. Seems fine until however it will not open a non http:// link when i use IWP. My link in the field is mms://ttsetav01/bodybeautiful.wmv (It's a video streamining file). when i click open URL button in IWP It becomes http://mms//ttsetav01/bodybeautiful.wmv (It replaces my link) What is happening? Has anyone found a way to solve it? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies Anthony R. Posted February 23, 2005 Newbies Share Posted February 23, 2005 Sorry, at this point I don't have a fix either. This started happening with me as well, while it worked fine before. The URL refers to a pdf document on our network. All permissions are open. When I click the link, it opens IE, pops the URL in the address bar, and adds that annoying "http://", preceding my link, and then I get a "The page cannot be displayed" error. I've even tried adding "file://" in front of the url, but it still pops in the "http://" prefix. I am using FM7 on Windows 2000. I've been all over the MS Knowledge base and I can only find articles relating to shutting off AutoComplete, which doesn't work either. I'm wondering if one of MS latest updates has affected this somehow. I can't figure if this is a FM problem or a Windows problem. Help anyone? Thanks, Tony [email protected] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted S Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Try using Send Event rather than Open URL. The syntax might be something like this: "iexplore.exe mms://ttsetav01/bodybeautiful.wmv" If you are running browsers other than IE you will have to handle that somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies Anthony R. Posted February 24, 2005 Newbies Share Posted February 24, 2005 Thank you for the response. It appears that Send Event is not Web compatible, and that's where my problem is. I'm still not able to make it work. Argghh! Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo33029 Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Here is a workaround I just found on an earlier thread from last November. Use a backslash "" right after the address portion of the URL. Your calculation result would look soomething like "http://192.168.1.1xxxxxxxxxxxx" Note that you need the double backslash escape sequence for FM to accept this as a valid text string. Echo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Tan Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 The workaround with http://192.168.1.1xxxxxxx" does not work at all. Tried it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiora Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 See this thread: http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=141892&an=0&page=0#141892 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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