Open File from Explorer

[koenNeves]

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

[Wim Decorte]

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.

[flapjacks]

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

John

[koenNeves]

Hey Wim Decorte,

thanks a lot, that's the perfect solution!

greetz,

Koen