Hi all,

I am trying to understand the send url link in filemaker 9. For instance can I create a way for the server of a database to send my a link to my email everyday so I can access the database remotely. And if so can I modify them as well? Secondly lets say I create a database that emails links to it to the staff of a company. Can I make it so that each sent link is only for the database for a small amount of records. For instance I want to send out the records of tasks or jobs for a particular day. The database can send out the link and the user only needs to click on the link and go into FM and get only that information. In other words can I use email as the means of accessing the database. People like email and they can check their emails (which people always do) and now they know when to access filemaker.

The link you send is just a link to open the database. You can't specify a script or parameters other than the (optional) name and password. So there really wouldn't be much point in sending the same link every day. It's just meant as a quick way to share a file.

That said, if you got creative with a startup script and accounts & privileges, you could do some of the things you mentioned.

Check out the online help:

Contents > Sharing databases on a network > Working with shared files as a client > Sending the URL of a shared database

Yes, I was thinking of generating a new user account each day, lets say the name plus the date, plus a random character. No need for a password to log in. Lets say I made an events coordinator database. I want the employees to log in and get only the records for today. I think this will allow that to happen. Need to experiment