What looks at first like a simple issue:

I'm trying to access an fp5 database through IE 5. The message when I hit the link is:

*Unable to process your request because the database "my_database.fp5" is not open.*

Clearly it *is* open (in Filemaker), the web companion is set for custom web page and web security, and the web security database is open and has an entry to include "my_database.fp5". I've included a user name and password for myself.

I've searched Filemaker's documentation and can find few references to what constitutes a database being *open*, other than the file being open in filemaker.

Any ideas?

Always, when I saw this message, something was wrong.

I never saw this message from my FM Unlimited.

FM site has always problems like you have and always there was someting wrong, server down etc.

In the offendinh databse, choose Sharing from the File menu and make sure that Web Companion is checked. The file can be opened, but not be shared with WC.

Thanks for the response.

The web companion is checked in the offending file. The web security database has an entry for the file, and a user ID for me to use.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a bug with IE5, Win2000 and filemaker.

LS

[ March 28, 2001: Message edited by: driven ]

No one experienced that without some kind of mistake, invisible space in name etc.

We are running the thing on MSIE W2000 98 NT Macs on everything

Finally!

You're right Anatoli. A syntax error in one of the URL queries:

*WRONG* & Last_Name=johnson&-sortField=Creation_Date...

*RIGHT* &Last_Name=johnson&-sortField=Creation_Date...

The space after the first ampersand caused the query to fail, with the *database not open* message. A tab doesn't cause a problem. I'm editing the project in MS-Dev-studio for the sake of the pretty colours, and I've gotten lax with my whitespace from coding in C++.

Anyway, looks like it works, so thanks to all for the help.

LS

Great.