I would like to be able to experiment with CDML and see the results immediately in a web browser on the same machine, but I can't seem to get FileMaker 4.0 to do this on my Mac. Even though I have the web companion plug-in enabled, when I try to open web pages marked up with CDML, it doesn't serve the data. Any tips on making this work? Thanks.

Hi, to see a page with the database fields populated, you need to open it by making a call through FileMaker, rather than just opening it in your web browser. Call the page and an action by url, using either 'localhost' or your own ip address (and the Filemaker port number if you've changed it). It'll look something like this:

http://localhost:591/myfolderpath/FMPro?-db=mydatabase&-lay=layout1&-format=mypage.htm&-error=myerrorpage.htm&-findAll

Your pages need to be within the FileMaker Web folder and the path to them is the relative one from there.

regards, jeff

Thank you. Part of my problem was a feature of Netscape 4.x that autocompletes URLs. So when netscape saw

<A HREF="http://localhost/FMPro?-db=Employees.fp3&-lay=Detail&-format=search.htm&-view">click here</A>

which is perfectly correct CDML, it tried www.localhost.com, which returns a 404.

So use IE to test CDML on your own machine, at least on a Mac. The owners of www.localhost.com have kindly posted an explanation of the problem..