8v2: Open URL fails when followed by Exit Application

[xochi]

I want to have a "exit" button which opens a URL and then does the Exit Application script (so that the session is ended).

OpenURL works.

Exit Application works.

But if I have them both in the same script, they fail.

Anyone got this working?

FMSA 8v2 under OSX 10.4.4 / Safari, popup blocker off.

[John May - Point In Space]

If you open a URL, then you've left the application. What you need to do instead is do an exit application script, then customize your IWP home page to do a redirect to the URL that you need to go to.

- John

[xochi]

Thanks! That's one work-around, for sure.

But doesn't it seem a little strange that IWP can't properly open a URL in the same window. That is just about the most basic feature of HTML one could imagine...

[Freddd]

I just went to

http://www.filemaker.com/company/feature_request.html

and put in a request to be able to Exit and go to a specific URL without opening a new window, we should all do the same.

[Freddd]

John,

But the other issue is, what happends if the user timesout? you dont want that user to go to the same page as users that complete a process, any ideas for a work around for that? any javascript code?