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Karen Shea

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I am running Webstar 4.0 and using the filemaker web server. Running Filmaker pro unlimited 5.0v2 on a seperate machine.

I'm getting an error when I add a record through the internet that has about 4 pages worth of text. The error is "unexplained error- couldn't find database name in post arguments"

Why is this, what's the problem and how to fix!! Thanks!

Anatoli Grand Master

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RE: "unexplained error- couldn't find database name in post arguments"

This is problem probably on WS server. Somehow it does not passing the name of database to Unlimited.

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Yes, I am using the newest Web Companion 5.0v6 filemaker extension and Post Action. What gives ? : )

In what way is it a possibility that this is related to webstar? Could it have anything to do with memory allocation?

Please help!!

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Hello!

I have similar problem with my solution too. It seems like Filemaker could not pass pig texts true. Everyting works fine with smaler inputs. But with larger posts we have similar error messages. We are using IIS5.0(web server connector) with 2-unlimiteds and one filemaker server.

What can we do with this. Are there some limitations with posts?

Timo

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Below is the details/edit page. The New page is simular. Can't edit an existing database with more than about a page, nor can you add a new one with more than a few paragraphs. The large amount of text is just in the story feild. Just for refresh, I'm the one using running Webstar 4.0 and using the filemaker web server and the newest Web Companion 5.0v6 filemaker extension and Post Action. Filmaker pro unlimited 5.0v2 on a seperate machine.

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE> News Article Details</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<H2><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">News Article Details</font></H2>

<FORM ACTION="../../news_edit/FMPro" METHOD="post">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-RecID" VALUE="[FMP-currentrecid]">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-db" VALUE="news.fp5">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-lay" VALUE="newsweb">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-format" VALUE="reply.htm">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-edit" VALUE="">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-delete" VALUE="">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-error" VALUE="error.htm">

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-find" VALUE="">

<p>

<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="-edit" VALUE=" Save Changes ">

   

<input type="reset" value=" Undo Changes " name="reset">

   

<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="-delete" VALUE=" Delete Whole Record ">

<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br>

<br>

Date:

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="date" VALUE="[FMP-field: date]">

<font size="2">  (example-08/22/2001)<font size="3"><br>

</font></font></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>

Title:

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="title" VALUE="[FMP-field: title]" size="65">

<br>

</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>

Author:

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="author" VALUE="[FMP-field: author]" size="60">

<br>

</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>

Story: <font size="2">(place <p> tag in place of carriage returns for

breaks to show on the web)</font></font></p>

<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td>

<blockquote>

<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">

<textarea name="story" cols="70" rows="20">[FMP-field: story,raw]</textarea>

</font></p>

</blockquote>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</FORM>

</BODY>

</HTML>

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Andreas Boehmer Member # 3537, you said that you are able to post 7 pages worth? What is your setup and file versions. How are they different than what I'm using?

Thanks so much, Karen Shea

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Hasn't got anything to do with your problem, but why have you got all the commands like -edit, -delete and -find as hidden tags in your code additionally to the process you define on the submit or delete buttons? This would create a URL something like

FMPro?-db=news.fmp5&-lay=newsweb&-format=reply.html&-edit&-find&-delet&-error=error.htm&-edit=submit

Meaning you've got -find in there, although you aren't searching and -delete or -edit twice.

I am using Webstar, Web Companion, FMPro 4. I would love to test your HTML/CDML, but haven't got access to our machine at the moment.

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