Hello,

you would really help me if you could give me a solution for this:

When I double click a file in windows explorer or when a hyperlink is placed in the startup folder to a filemaker file, the file itself doesn't open. Filemaker opens and shows the window 'Open New or Existing File'. I need the file to open by itself because my solution is used in a production environment and edited with only a barcode scanner. The filemaker version I use is 7.0v3a in Windows XP SP2.

any suggestions?

thanks a lot.

Koen Boussemaere

Belgium

Dag Koen,

Don't know the cure for that one, but you can work around it by using FileMaker's ActiveX model.

Put this in notepad and save it as openFileMaker.vbs:

set fmApp = createobject("FMPRO.application")

fmApp.visible = true

set fmDocs = fmApp.documents

set fmDoc = fmDocs.open("c:someFile.fp7", "account", "pw")

set fmDoc = nothing

set fmDocs = nothing

set fmApp = nothing

Teach your users to double-click the VBS file.

Check your windows settings for opening files. I click the file I want and that's the one that opens.

John

Hey Wim Decorte,

thanks a lot, that's the perfect solution!

greetz,

Koen