Hi,

I'm completely new to the forum as well as to FileMaker. I'm just starting to learn it because a friend of mine need to do an application with it. It has some requirements for its application. Most of them are normal features, such as storing informations, querying a database and so on.

But he asked me about the possibility to open from the application a directory on the hard disk. He needs to open some files (pdf or doc files, I think) so he would like to have a button or a link that opens the normal browsing window.

I think it should be possible to do such a thing, but I'm not completely sure and I don't know how to search, so I'm asking here.

Maybe there is a clever or more functional way to obtain the same result?

Another problem is that he has a Mac, while I use Windows (or Linux), so it would be great if there was a cross-platform solution.

Thanks.

to achieve this task I would turn to a plugin that would allow you the interface to look at the OS directory's allowing you to target the file or folder of choice.

(FYI FileMaker does not run on Linux)

One of these should work.

http://www.fmpug.com/resourcedirectory_plugin_list.php?find=File%20Manipulation

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However if you are just "opening" a file on the directory you can use the OPEN URL script function and pass the file path as a URL "file://path/to/directory/to/file"

(FYI FileMaker does not run on Linux)

Yes, I know.

to achieve this task I would turn to a plugin that would allow you the interface to look at the OS directory's allowing you to target the file or folder of choice.

One of these should work.

http://www.fmpug.com/resourcedirectory_plugin_list.php?find=File%20Manipulation

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd like to program it by myself, if it's possible. So if there is a particular topic which I can read or something.

hope this helps...

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/187408/

You may try to search on "open url" to find other posts/topics