IWP opens new window - Don't want it to!

[txjcfsr]

Using IWP on FMSA 7 on a Mac Mini with 1.42 GHZ with FMSA 7, all updates installed, running on OS X 10.4.2. I made a "home" button on my IWP layout, which uses the script "Open URL". When I press the button, the script works, but it always opens a new browser window, but I don't want it to. I want to go to the URL in the SAME browser window.

I have tested this on IE on XP and IE on Mac, both do the same.

Anyone know how to do that? Is there a better way to have a hyperlink activated from a field? I could use the link to get to the home page, if I knew how to do it.

Thank you in advance.

[CyborgSam]

FileMaker opens URLs in a new window so the user will not stay logged into the database after going to a different site. Of course, the user could just type a URL into the address bar, but users should be warned against doing this...

[txjcfsr]

How can I put a link on a IWP page that takes me back to the /home.html page and make it work so that I can return in the same browser window?

Thank you

John C. Foster

[Michael Maher]

I have also been trying to get this to happen, using various forms of _self, but so far to no success.

Also tried to close the old IWP window but can't get that to happen in the same script call.

There is a way to do it however - use a logout script (Exit Application) which takes you to the IWP Home page, then put a redirect on that page (iwp_home.html) to the URL you want.

I want to take users to my own web page of the solution on logout. But by putting a redirect on the iwp_home.html file, it means that file can never be used for other IWP databases.

Not very satisfactory.

Michael

[txjcfsr]

Thanks for the tip. Sounds like you are trying to do the same thing that I am, for the same reason. I have a custom web publishing home page which allows my users to go to the IWP pages and/or the cwp pages. My problem was having them return to that "home" page from IWP without having the new browser window open.

I'll try your suggestion.

Thanks again.

[txjcfsr]

Do you know how to get to the IWP home page to edit it?

Thanks in advance.

[Michael Maher]

Do a search for iwp_home.html

It is in an obscure place on both Mac and PC. I forget where on the Mac but on PC it is in the FileMaker Server directory of Program Files, but deep down somewhere.

Steven Blackwell has a discussion on this in his first update to his book on FileMaker Security.

He suggests a script tag or redirect. Script tag goes like this, in the head:

Parent.location.href=http://yourpagepath

Michael