Hi

I am creating a database that will be a stand alone runtime solution. I wish to include a folder in the run times files that will store PDF´s relevant to each record. I have created files and opened files from a filemaker database before and so am happy with this but is it possible to have the file path so it does not matter where the client places the runtime solution files. ie it treats the main run time folder as the root?

Many thanks for your help.

John

Yes.

Put a folder named "PDFs" inside the folder containing your primary database file. The "PDFs" folder will sit alongside your primary runtime database file.

Then put your PDF documents inside this "PDFs" folder.

FileMaker will automatically use a relative path to the files inside this folder when you insert by reference into a Container field.

When creating paths to files in this folder to use in scripts use the format "file:PDFs/myfilename.pdf".

Edited April 4, 201015 yr by Guest

Thank you