Dr. Evil Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 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! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Jondreau Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Evil Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Using FMP 10. What are the steps to accomplish this? Thanks for the quick response! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Evil Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruceR Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Evil Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 How do you set this up? I'm not familiar with this. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Evil Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 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 --- Good source for FMP Error Codes: http://www.briandunning.com/error-codes/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruceR Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Well, like this. Enter valid server IP address and file name for your situation. FMP7Link.fp7.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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