Javascript Plug in

[xoomaster]

Do you guys know of a plug-in to run javascript in FMP and on the Web Viewer ?

So far Web viewer has remained a simple window to the net, with otherwise limited usage !

Xoomaster

[Mikhail Edoshin]

Web Viewer runs JavaScript just fine.

[xoomaster]

Once a page is loaded, there is no way of performing a javascript on a page though !

Any ideas ?

[Reed]

have you set the web viewer to allow interaction?

[xoomaster]

yes, but there is no way of acting on what is already in a webviewer unless you reload it and include the changes on the reload . Does this make sense ?

[Genx]

As in there's no way of acting on the current contents of the web viewer... or there's no way for FileMaker to retrieve any changes? - You could always create a small looping script that runs every few seconds to get the content and then acts if the current content is different from the previous content.

[xoomaster]

Now finally there is MBS plugin !

[Mighty-Mouse]

yeah... with mbs plug in(with todd's help), i could load my db's field value to the web-viewer and let it trigger the search button and show result page. and with my own web scraping , i brought the results to filamaker fields.

so actually it is one button does it all kind of thing . ( load,search,show results, bring the results into fmp fields )

it was my dream ever since web viewer came out.

the only thing is every website has different setting , so still need to find out how to make it work. i got todd's help to make it work.

so i promised him i would advertize mbs plug in whenever i have a chance.

for now mbs plug in is the only plug in can run the java script in a webviewer.

try it guys ! it is a great plug in.

kyle

[dfcraig]

MBS is not the only plugin to do this - you should also take a look at our plugin, Fusion Reactor fusionplugins.com/reactor which does exactly this.

Reactor is a plugin that serves content to the web viewer - so you can give it HTML, JavaScript, Flash, images etc, - then, more importantly, it allows the AJAX code in the web viewer to interact with your database directly so you can:

- Read data from FileMaker

- Write data back to FileMaker

- Add and Delete records

- Run scripts

Check it out - we've got a great little demo file to show you a few ideas about what can be done with this technology.

Cheers

Craig

[Mighty-Mouse]

hi, i looked at your plugin example file and

i didn't find a example which load filemaker

field value to the web and trigger search with

fmp script. do you have these kind of example

file ?

though i think your plug in is very nice and i'm

sure it will be useful for many users.

kyle

[dfcraig]

Hi Kyle,

I think to do what you suggest - trigger a web based search, and (presumably) get the results back into FileMaker - our TCPdirect plugin would be more appropriate for that. The example in the TCPdirect demo downloads a web form, fills it in and submits it, then retrieves the results. Let me know if that is what you mean.

Cheers

Craig