Display a pdf file

[DHart]

I would like to have users click on either an icon or a button to display a pdf or Word doc file in FM7 (Windows). I have the pdf filename in a field.

I made a button of a field containing a URL and it successfully starts up my browser and goes to the proper website.

I can manually insert the pdf file into a container field in a record. An icon is created and it starts adobe reader and displays the file. But I don't want to manually insert each pdf file.

I tried to import all of the pdf files from a folder using import/folder, but I get an error message -

"No files of the specified type were found in the specified folder."

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks...

[John Mark Osborne]

Sounds like a job for FileMaker 8.5. The new Web Viewer feature will allow you to display the PDF right inside a Web Viewer object simply by entering the URL to the PDF in a field.

[DHart]

Thanks, John, but that is not an option at this point. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks again...