Open URL Command

[AJB_UMASS]

OK - this is driving me nutty. When I submit the contents of a field (webURL) to the Open URL script step, it insists on converting any "#" characters to their hex equivalent of "%23". Unfortunately, this breaks the URL, because neither Safari, Firefox or Mac IE seem to understand that hex value as equivalent to "#". I cannot link to anchors in an HTML document without this working, so any advice would be appreciated.

typical field value: www.somedomain.com/file.html#anchor

[SlimJim]

There is a current thread about this in WindowsXP but the odd behaviour seems to be different.

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat...&PHPSESSID=

[AJB_UMASS]

Yes - this is related, but different. I've already solved the problem of random "/" characters getting duplicated by the OpenURL command - you have to leave off the prefix of (for example) "http://". If you do that, the OpenURL command _mostly_ works right.

I submitted a bug report to Filemaker; here's hoping they fix this issue with the next patch release.

[xochi]

This still is a problem in 8.0v4 -- is it it fixed in 8.5?

Edit -- to clarify, I'm seeing this in FM 8.0v4 with Safari under Mac OS X 10.4.8.

Edited December 4, 2006 by Guest