I work for a research lab, and I am trying to create a webpage that everyone can access to upload or find information. My ultimate goal is that we have files that contain lots of information concerning plasmids (the extension is *.gb, which i'm sure is not supported by filemaker). I don't want to manipulate the data inside filemaker, but I want users to be able to upload the *.gb file onto the webpage so that other users from different computers can download the file. Is there a way that filemaker can handle this function?

Hi Duncamunk,

Are you trying to upload it using ftp? If yes, try to look at Moo plugin (freeware plugin). Here is the URL of the feature: Moo Features

HTH.

I'm really know nothing about ftp, but i downloaded the plugin and took a look at the upload function. It looks like it might work, but I'm afraid that the sheer amount of information you need to supply it is more complicated than anyone in my lab could or wants to understand. Is there a way that I could create an easy button that the user presses, prompts him or her for the file location, and uploads it to a table for storage? And then another button that allows the user to download the file as well? I don't want to get them bogged down with anything more than that.

Hi,

Is there a way that I could create an easy button that the user presses, prompts him or her for the file location, and uploads it to a table for storage?

Uploads it to a table for storage? Do you mean "Container field" type ?

And then another button that allows the user to download the file as well?

Where do you want to save the file? Is it on FTP site? Or on your network (LAN)?

I don't want to covert it to a filetype that filemaker can read- i want it to be in its original form, so I'm not sure what kind of thing that'd be in filemaker.

We are going to have our database kept on a full-time server, so we COULD upload the files thru ftp... but I don't know the server name yet. There is no way to store the file in FM?