Automate Open Remote File

[Dr. Evil]

Is there a way to automatically open a FMP file remotely?

It is a little cumbersome for users to:

>go to file

>open remote

>choose host

>choose file

Would like to automate all this for the user upon computer startup. Any ideas on how to do this?

Most of us are on OS X v.10.5.8

Thank you for your help! :)

[David Jondreau]

FMP 9? The latest version has a method of creating a short link. But in earlier versions, like 9, you can create an "Opener" file.

Users click on that local file. The local file contains a reference to the remote file, runs a script that opens the remote file, then closes itself.

[Dr. Evil]

Using FMP 10. What are the steps to accomplish this?

Thanks for the quick response!

[Dr. Evil]

Ok, so I got this to work per your advise.

I created a startup file with a script > (open file) that opens the main file and then closes itself like you said. I put this startup file in my System Prefs> Accounts> Login Items.

This is working well, much better alternative to opening remote manually.

Any further suggestions, tweaks, etc... to this?

Cool deal!

[bruceR]

Don't forget you can just create a link that you can put on your desktop, in an email, or in a company internal home page, whatever.

fmp7://serverIP/filename.fp7

[Dr. Evil]

How do you set this up? I'm not familiar with this. Thank you!

[Dr. Evil]

Just thought of something! What if the remote file is offline?

So in startup script, I set error capture ON.

---

IF [Get LastError = 100]

Message "Sorry, file unavailable"

ELSE

Close startup file

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Good source for FMP Error Codes: http://www.briandunning.com/error-codes/

[bruceR]

Well, like this. Enter valid server IP address and file name for your situation.

FMP7Link.fp7.zip