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I'm not sure I understand. The data is on our website as a delimited text file. My goal is to import the file and parse the data. How can I use the web browser to accomplish?

Unfortunatly, the file is not XML compatible.

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You would point your web viewer to the URL of the file. Then grab the content (of the entire file) using GetLayoutObjectAttribute(), and parse it out to individual records/fields.

If AppleScript is an option, you could use that to download the file, then import it into Filemaker - that would save the need for parsing.

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OK, I like the idea of using the webviewer to capture the file. I can assign the ftp address to get to the data, how do I structure the GetLayoutObjectAttribute to return data? My calculation, GetLayoutObjectAttribute("webdatafiles";"content") where webdatafiles is the name of the web viewer, did not return anything.

Thank you

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