Description: Hi

Has anyone made a drop down menu autopopulate from the contents of a folder? Is this possible with filemaker? And if it is can someone point me in the right direction?

Edited January 13, 200620 yr by Guest
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You may have to be more specific by what you mean by folder. The value lists (drop down menus) can be defined as from field values in a table or a relationship.

I have a database and the only way to get to some of the files is through external urls. So I wrote a script that gets all the urls and puts them into a text file.

Then filemaker imports the file into a separate database.

The problem I am having is that I have to restart both databases if I want to refresh the list of urls and reimport them. Isn't there a way to get a list of all the urls of files on a website to autopopulate a dropdown without having to import files or restart the database? Also, something I haven't tested yet thoroughly, but is there a way to get the dropdown menu to keep the setting you originally set it with even if the url changes from field 1 to field 3 or something.

In Max MSP, the drop down menu will populate from files in whatever path you set.

like /Users/person/audio/blabla.aif

Is there something similar in filemaker?